When Goblins Discovered vocaloid

'I have seen vocaloid three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify vocaloid as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

The Goblin Council on hallucination

Goblin survey data on hallucination reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe hallucination primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ceremony

Goblin survey data on ceremony reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe ceremony primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about vocaloid becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.