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Conventions are fundamentals to defining a genre as they are the different aspects of a genre. Essentially anything can be its own genre as long as it is made up of conventions and differs from other genres. Thus I will examine a few genre generators and analyze the components that make up each one. The first genre generator that I was set to analyze was SCIgen genre generator. Probably the most complex genre generator as it involved many graphs, references, and used a heavy use of jargon. The program itself is not that complex as you only have to insert an author or authors names. The excerpt that is generated seems to be for a college level reader or for a professor in college since the piece is written as if it was a lab report. The structure of the generated piece is complex as it begins with an abstract which explains what was done in the experiment. Another convention is the table of contents which consists of both textual evidence to support the authors experiment as well as the theory that the author is trying to prove. The graphs are another convention for the generator as there are multiple graphs explaining the authors point and supporting their theory. In order to solidify the piece some of the excerpts include a related works section with acknowledges people who also worked on a similar project. Each generated piece from SCIgen also has a reference section which is pretty much a works cited page that cites all of the authors used in the piece of writing. The SCIgen genre generator is the most complex as it is composed of may parts.

The comic strips was made up of a few conventions as it was much simpler than the SCIgen generation. The comic strips consists of randomly occurring comics of Simon and Finlay who are the two characters in the comic strip. The audience for the comic strips is most likely for high schoolers or young adults. The reason for this is that there is profanity as well as blood that is displayed in some images. Since this is done at random many of the images do not correlate and are out of place. The first comic scene usually is a pacifist one where one of the characters asks the other a question. The following comic tends to be more violent and absurd as well as the question is never answered. The last comic scene derives even more as it does not relate to the second comic scene. However, sometimes the first and third comic scene correlate in some way, but not entirely. The Pandyland by far is the most absurd genre generator, but also is not the least complex.

The last genre generator that I inspected was the meme generator. This genre had the simplest design as it involved a picture followed by words that anyone can type in. The intended audience for this is young adults and adults since some the references are complex. Many of the pictures that could be used for memes involved popular movies and popular television shows. The pictures tend to show an emotion that is similar to what the caption is stating. Memes are mainly used in pop culture to bring laughter to people and many are posted in social media sites such as reddit, tumblr, and twitter. Memes are simple but a genre of their own because they utilize popular images with comedic/sarcastic words usage. 

Lastly, I found my own genre generator at springholle.net and I went under the random  chosen random-generator. The conventions of this were fairly simple since all of the random-generators included words. The difference of these are that some randomly chosen generators  only had names while others had scenarios that could happen. Each was unique within themselves because all of the generators were random. There are almost unlimited genres that can be analyzed, and many have differences and similarities between the conventions that make them up.