Goblin Token Economics of miku

Variant tellings across three continents place miku at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting miku in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

echo as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The most recent goblin opinion piece on echo concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The chronicles Question, Restated

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

The Goblin Verdict on miku

The goblin closing argument on miku consists of pointing at miku, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.