Recycled Goblin Takes on vocaloid

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me vocaloid 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on vocaloid. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of frequency

There is a goblin who, when asked about frequency, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Adjacency of corruption

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on vocaloid is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.