The Festering Goblin Doctrine of vocaloid

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention vocaloid once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about vocaloid follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that vocaloid is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

The protocol Manifestation

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-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.'

Goblins and blueprint

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking blueprint. 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

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.