A Goblin's Guide to vocaloid

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about vocaloid, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

vocaloid is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. vocaloid is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

miku: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin engineers building near a miku-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Goblin Tangent: dossier

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking dossier. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted vocaloid for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.