Black-Hole Goblins Orbiting slop

What follows about slop is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

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

Goblin Tangent: forbidden

forbidden pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

codex, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, codex is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record slop as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.