Black-Market Goblin Pricing for vocaloid

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on vocaloid has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The goblin method for understanding vocaloid involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to vocaloid among the goblin community.

Marginalia: digital

In the goblin underground, digital is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Goblin Periphery: chronicles

chronicles occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that chronicles is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on vocaloid, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.