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When I initially read the prompt for this assignment, I was a bit confused as to how I should go about doing this assignment, but after experimenting a bit with all of the generators that were provided, I understood that genre generators simply take conventions of certain genres and generate articles, comics, essays, etc to fit particular genres. The piece that is produced can be completely made-up, but it will still follow the basic conventions of the chosen genre, such as the pieces produced by SCIgen.
The first genre generator that I dug into was SCI gen. With SCIgen, the articles that were generated were all computer science research papers. They all consisted highly of scientific related vocabulary and were all written in formal and informative language. I noticed after generating a few papers that I usually didn't know what most of the articles were about as I don't study computer science. For example, some of the papers that I generated were titled "An Investigation of RAID" and "A Case for DHTs". All of the papers were also structured in similar ways. They began with an introduction the the research, followed by the actual methods for the research itself, and usually ended with the evaluation and conclusion of the research.  
The next generator that I used was the comic generator. After experimenting with Pandyland, I saw that the comic strips were consistently 3 panels long and didn't consist of much text per panel. The characters were also drawn very comedically and a lot of the comics made fun of the characters or had cruel language that was meant to be sarcastic or ironic. The comics were also simple, but colorful as to make the comic more lighthearted.
Among the provided genre generators, I would have to say that the meme generator was the most amusing to experiment with. Some common features among the generated memes were simplistic, comical, or easily recognizable images or people that had a short sentence split between the top and bottom of the image. The memes seemed to mainly serve a comical purpose, as they were typically sarcastic, or witty. A lot of the memes also use a play on words such as one particular meme read "If they are called apartments, why are they all together?".
Among all of the genre generators that appeared from my Google search, I chose to explore the depths of a plot generator (http://www.plot-generator.org.uk/). The plot generator was a bit different in that plots are a genre in themselves, but the user can pick a genre within the genre of plots. I chose to generate 3 different plot genres: Fantasy, Mystery, and Science Fiction. For each of the chosen genres, I was able to fill in information for the plot, such as location, different nouns and adjectives, etc. or I could press on the "suggest" button and the website would randomly generate the information. With all three of the plots that were generated, the website would also include a book cover with the title of the generated plot and the pen name that the user provides/ The plots were all relatively short, relative to the length of a plot summary, and they were all written in a comical way. Most of the plots weren't cohesive and they seemed as if they were written through a series of mashing nouns, verbs, and adjectives together. In the Science Fiction plot, the last written line read "Superhulk must fight to save Gremlin Mike but when he accidentally unearths a dirty piano, the future of the brown, handsome galaxy is at stake".
Thinking about what's happening in these websites can help people better understand the conventions of different genres. If one were to continuously generate and explore genres using these generators, over just a short period of time, they would begin to see patterns and common features among the same genres.  These genre generators show its users that genres all have very particular structures and functions to their own respective genres. In using these generators, people would be able to see different genres in their perspective websites and be able to more specifically comprehend what conventions belong to which genres and what affordances and constraints there are to each particular genre.