Summary:
Pablo49 is entering Ludum Dare 48. Since the theme wasn't voted on yet, he decided that, if all else fails, he can just make a game about goats. Within a few posts, we had a whole premise, and even cover art made up for the game.
At this point, Pablo regretted beginning the trend, but played along, and added
Goats to the graphic he made for his desktop (visible as a tiny gray smear at the bottom of the rabbit hole of browser screenshots), containing the titles "Monxcleyr Productions," "Ludum Dare," and, of course, "Goats." Later, Loru inexplicably posted a screenshot called 'recursion' :
...And off we went.