PB1B on Genre Generators

The first genre generator that I looked at was the one that generates different computer science papers. I found this one to be the most boring of all the genre generators that I looked at. The main reason being because it only generates long papers about computer science theologies that interest me very little. The words they use are very high level and require a great deal of effort to try to decipher what they are talking about. And on top of the writings include multiple graphs and charts and diagrams that are supposed to “help” understand the concepts they are describing. If you are into that sort of stuff and understand a word of essays the generator gave me, then be my guest and knock yourself out. 

      The next generator I took a look at was the comic strip generator. And while it wasn’t my favorite one, it was most certainly the most interesting of them. The generator spits out completely random comic strips. From the ones you would see in your dad’s newspaper to something a middle schooler would draw, it has it all. I was very surprised by how uncensored it was with the comics. It seems like anyone who ever made a comic put theirs up on the website. Two things I found very funny were the art style and the stories of these comics. First, the art styles could be literally anything. Some of them look like they were made by a professional artist by hand, and others looked like something I made in MS paint about seven years ago. And second, the stories can make absolutely no sense whatsoever. 

For example, look at this one. What is this even about? Is there supposed to be coherent story at all? And why does it look like one person started drawing the first half of the comic, then a second person came in and finished the rest of the comic? It baffles me. But case in point, the website generates literally anything that can be considered a comic.

     After taking a breather from that generator, I took a look at the meme generator. This one was probably my favorite of all the genre generators simply because I find memes amusing. But all the memes that are shown in the meme generator have a couple things in common. To start, they feature a picture of someone or something. It doesn’t really matter what the picture is, as long as it matches with the other common feature; the top and bottom texts. 

For example, this cat is wearing a bow tie and glasses in what looks like a chemistry classroom. So the texts have some sort of joke that relates to the cat.

  The final genre generator I took a look at was a movie script generator, https://www.berezinfilm.com/tools/screenplay-treatment-generator/ . At first I was looking for one that just gave me random movie scripts from any movie. However, I couldn’t really find any that gave me what I was looking for. So instead I used one of the generators that gave me a movie script based on what I typed in. It asked for a lot of the basics of a movie. What type of plot, the character’s name, the title, and so on. One thing that surprised me about this generator is that it asked for different plot points within a movie, like a catalyst that sets the story in motion. In the end it gave me a pretty cohesive story since it had asked for so much detail about what I wanted in the first place.

       Overall, looking at these websites helps us understand how we should be analyzing genres. If we think about what these websites are programmed to look for when generating a random genre we can start to think about what the genres are made up of. Otherwise, these generators would just give us random writings, and not specific genres.