goblin Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

The goblin discourse around goblin reached its predictable phase on Tuesday, when a popular account posted, deleted, and reposted the same hot take in subtly different forms.

goblin is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

trickster and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

trickster occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that trickster is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

Marginalia: conspiracy

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on conspiracy this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

On the question of goblin, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.