PB1B: Genre Generators

Genre Generators are basically anything you find online that lets you do almost anything. You can look up what type of dog you want to have, the ingredients to your favorite tomato sauce, you can even find out George Washington’s birthday. There are endless possibilities in genre generators. As long as you have a working laptop, phone, tablet, or any other device that allows you to search stuff, you have access to endless amounts of information.

The first genre generator I looked up was SCIgen. It apparently is a program that makes research papers for computer science. It explains that it provides everything you need for a paper. Sounds pretty useful, the person “writing” the paper isn’t really writing it then, are they? This is how it works: you type in an author of your choice and a complete computer science paper appears with all of the elements needed for a research paper. The conventions that this genre generator has are research, graph, citations, authors, and computers. This is a website that will come in handy specifically for people who aren’t the best at writing research papers, or people who are too lazy to. Why bother writing a paper if a website that has everything you need can do it for you? It seems unrealistic, but it exists.

The second genre generator I explored was pandyland.net/random. This website includes different comic strips that are not at all related to one another. Most comics are meant to be humorous, but some can be serious as well. Most people visit these sites to have a laugh, or just to read something new. These comics are little different than the ones you find in your average newspaper. Usually, the ones on paper are in the back, and it’s the last thing on the page. The comics don’t normally take up that much space, hence, the reason why they are somewhat short. This website, however, provides comics that are longer than your average comic strip ofund in the newspaper. The conventions that are in this genre generator include: humor, onomatopoeia, politics, holidays. Like most comics, they tend to be relatable. Usally we find something humorous because it happens in our everyday lives. Other times, we find comics funny because its not something you see every day; it’s not the norm.

The third generator I looked up was memegenerator.net. This is probably the most popular genre used/talked about for our generation. Instantly, before even arriving at the site, an endless list of words pops in to my mind. The first one that seems to stick out is: humor. Memes are meant to be light and funny, and they typically aren’t ever serious. In fact, some of them are too inappropriate to show your younger siblings. Others, to me, don’t make much sense. The memes usually come from something that people have common knowledge of. They can relate to school, movies, animals, tv shows, friends, family, etc. This website fortunately allows you to make your own account. Afterwards, you have the ability to post memes that you find on your own. You can even make your own memes by creating captions to put with random pictures that you find. This website is a good place to meet others who have the same interests as you, (of course, only when it comes to memes).

The final genre generator I looked up was called, “shindan maker” and it’s a music genre generator. Even though its not what it sounds like, I found it pretty interesting. First of all, I originally thought that it would let you type in an artist, genre of music, song, etc., and a list of songs would appear. Meanwhile, it’s a website that allows you to type in your name, and the generator tells you what kind of band you are meant to be in. For example, I typed in my name in and it said I am “the founding member of a horror swing band.” It was ironic to me, because I don’t like anything that has to do with horror.

I found these different genre generators useful in that they helped me learn more about what a genre really is. I know now, a genre can really be anything. Each of the genres I looked up have their own conventions that make them all original and unique.