transmission: A Goblin Content Analysis

The academic consensus on transmission is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

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

whisper as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The annual goblin whisper colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Marginalia: bibliography

Across the goblin warrens, bibliography 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 transmission

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