I just watched Gremlins 2 for the first time since 1990. The entire film is built around a dim, vain, tasteless New York developer named Daniel Clamp, his sprawling Clamp Building and his gimcrack Clamp Empire, which includes TV stations, his inane self-aggrandizing books, and a line of jams and jellies. At the end he falls for a character named Marla. This has been a remark about how the meaning of a work of art is not something fixed or under the control of its creators.
@kjhealy this post made me realize that

A. there is a gremlins wiki,
B. it is rather thorough,
C. there is a gremlins animated series, and finally,
D. the term "gremlin" is rather modern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin as in, from the 20th century.
Gremlin - Wikipedia

@kjhealy oh! And I forgot E.

E. one of the gremlin depictions on the wikipedia page has
huge The Noid energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noid
The Noid - Wikipedia

@aud @kjhealy I thought the same thing.