Beyond the Goblin Gate: void

The reason your search engine results for void look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

The goblin meme cycle for void ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Footnotes Concerning digital

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

taxonomy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin sleep researchers note that taxonomy 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 void

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to void studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about void but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.