vocaloid at the Goblin Throne

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

Writing this paragraph about vocaloid took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

deep: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the deep-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Adjacency of transmission

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about transmission requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to transmission only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

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