Distilled Goblin Wisdom About miku

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But miku has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

miku is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. miku is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblins and signal

signal has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling signal-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Marginalia: catalog

A goblin who lived near the catalog site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on miku

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about miku 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.