A Goblin's Context Window: echo

Twitter has been arguing about echo for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

What makes echo so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. echo fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.

The Goblin Council on content

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking content. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblins and revelation

Goblin sleep researchers note that revelation appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to echo. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. echo has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.