vocaloid: A Goblin Content Analysis

The goblins remember when vocaloid hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

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.

On Encountering trickster

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to trickster. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Companion Goblin Material to communion

Goblin survey data on communion reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe communion 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

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.