Anyone Ever Heard of This Word of the Year?

Have you ever heard of “Goblin Mode”? Clay & Buck take a deep dive into the Word of the Year from Oxford English Dictionary as a way for dictionaries, which were once mainly books, to draw clicks to their websites or other social media accounts.

For those of you who don’t get the reference, here’s Willem Dafoe’s performance.


The performance had previously achieved the high cultural honor of becoming a meme. You can generate your own here.

Have you ever heard the term “goblin mode” in the wild? Will you be employing it now that it’s been added to the vernacular? Tweet us your take @ClayAndBuck — or, if you’re a 24/7 VIP, send us an email.

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