PB1B- Genre Generators
Genres are everywhere, you can find a genre in everything. Having a computer or phone allows people to have access to genres and information on genres at the touch of their fingertips. There are many websites that create genres and often times conventions are attached to them which allows viewers to clearly identify what they are looking for.
One genre generator website, SCIgen, is specifically designed to generate computer science research papers and even includes useful tools such as graphs and figures. Each paper begins with an introduction and includes related work, principles, implementation, evaluation, conclusion, and a full list of references. Whenever the generate button is pressed on the website, a different topic comes up. For example, some papers that were generated are, “Refining Hierarchical Databases Using Real-Time Communication”, “E-Business Considered Harmful”, and “Enabling IPv4 and Neural Networks Using Tical”.
The next genre generator website is based on comic strips which seems to be aimed at older, mature adults and includes a lot of raw humor; however, some of the strips are also relatable. One strip consists of someone, probably a mother, telling someone else, most likely their child or spouse, to do the dishes which are piled up. They respond, “no I did them last time”. The next picture shows the dishes last time and there was barely any to be done. Conventions of these comic strips seems to be: foul language, puns, naked people, sex, and death.
One of the most popular genres of this generation is memes. Upon arriving to the meme generator website, you are met with an instant abundance of memes. This website gives you the opportunity to search memes according to: popularity, relevance, and new creations. Memes can be political, scientific, sexual, suggestive, or just plain old funny. Most often, however, memes are used as a way to connect a person to an audience because of their relatable nature.
One genre generator website that most people probably don’t think of but is very popular is youtube. Research shows that at least 8 billion people use youtube a month. One of the most popular conventions of youtube is music such as, pop, rap, and hip hop. In addition to music, youtubers, such as PewDiePie, Jenna Marbles, and Logan Paul, are also very popular to watch. However, youtube is also used for educational purposes, tv shows, step-by-step recipes, diy crafts, vlogging, and more. Youtube allows anybody to access almost any sort of content they are searching for. Youtube is just another website that includes: entertainment, sports, politics, and news.
Basically, genre is at the very core of human interaction. Every person on this planet wants to be understood and wants to understand. Memes, music, and comic strips are all genres that allow us to connect and relate to everyone else on this earth. Other types of genres, like the essay generator, simply allows people to provide a helping hand to another person in need. Genre is made up of similarities in a certain subject but it is so much more than just that. These websites show that you can have one big topic and multiple mini topics that surround that one, big idea. For instance, music is a genre but then you can get more specific and talk about rock music. Then you can go even further and talk about alternative rock, goth rock, indie rock, hard rock, progressive rock, and so on. Or on the subject of memes, you can have a picture of a person with a funny facial expression and then have hundreds of punch lines related to that same picture. These websites allow people to observe one, specific genre and multiple mini conventions.
I disagree on the idea that Youtube would be an example of a genre generator. You said "Youtube allows anybody to access almost any sort of content they are searching for." which is the fundamental difference between a random generator and a search engine. Also, you start off with a pretty good description of SCIgen, but digress into an incredibly vague description of the pandyland comics. What do the characters look like? What does the website look like? you say the conventions of the comic generator are foul language, puns, naked people, sex, and death, but this is such a vague description of the comics! I would like to read something more specific so I have a better idea of what the comics actually are and how to generator functions.
ReplyDeleteI like your description of the computer science paper generator, it was pretty accurate. You pointed out that there was always six sections, and that there was always graphs and figures provided in each generation. I think we looked at different comic strip generators, because the ones I saw weren’t like the ones you described. I liked your description of the meme generator. Memes can be about literally everything, which you addressed when you talked about the different things they were about. I kind of have to agree with James that YouTube isn't really a generator. Although, there are a ton of genres on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteTorie, I think that this post is very well executed to be completely honest with you. I actually happen to agree with you that youtube is its own genre, yes obviously there are many different types of genre within youtube but I also think it could stand on its own. It allows people to look at videos, therefore, its own genre right? I don't really blame you for going into a vague description of the pandyland generator because it was my least favorite one to talk about, maybe just due to the fact that I'm not really a comics type of girl. All in all, it was a great blog post and I enjoyed reading it (:
ReplyDeleteTori, I agree with you that the most popular genre generator is memes. Memes are something our generation seems to enjoy and relate to. It's something we like to look up with our friends, generally to have a laugh. I also think youtube IS its own genre. It provides all kinds of videos that people can search, like, and even comment on. Even though there are many different types of genres found within youtube, doesn't that make youtube a genre itself? I also noticed at the end how you described music was its own genre, but then there's different categories that go with it, and with every different category, you can get more specific. I liked that example because even though that's true with music, there's so many, (if not all), genres that that applies to as well.
ReplyDeleteHey Torie, great writing piece. You had a good description of the meme generator and I for myself enjoy looking through different ones to get a good laugh. I agree with what you wrote about SCI gen and I personally found that site very interesting. I liked how you went into specifics about It and explained how graphs and figures can be included to help people write their science research papers. I feel like this site is a very helpful tool for many that struggle with it. The one thing that I would slightly disagree with is calling Youtube a genre generator. I feel like I have a sense of what you were trying to get at. Relating to what Corinne said, I believe Youtube would be more of a genre itself.
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ReplyDeleteGreat writing piece overall. You had a very good description on meme generator and comic strip generator. I like how you went into deep details to explain each genre generator. I can see where you were going with calling YouTube a genre generator but I have to agree with everyone else that YouTube itself is a genre but not a genre generator.
ReplyDeleteI know the memes page is really popular, for some reason I put genre generator into a category that you can only get outcomes. Like for example for the sons of anarchy a name popped out for you. Or for the one I did a song popped out. For this memes generator after reading several comments I realize that you can make your own. Maybe I’m just over analyzing this but how does that make it a generator if you make it ?
ReplyDeleteTorie, I also agree with you about what you said about YouTube. Even though its not super random you can search a song you want to hear it then leaves you with a bunch of other songs that have a similar sound or tone to the song you searched. So in a way that is a type of random generator because you dont always get what you ask for when you search on YouTube. Personally I think you made some great points in your post!
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