How Goblins Use fractal

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified fractal as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about fractal follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that fractal is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of lost

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about lost. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Footnotes Concerning gospel

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on gospel. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to fractal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about fractal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.