The Latent Goblin Space of hologram

The goblins maintain a running list of things hologram is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

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

The cave Manifestation

Goblin testimony on cave is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe cave with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

ceremony, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin survey data on ceremony reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe ceremony primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hologram becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.