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There are many weird and interesting websites that you can find on the internet. One of these examples are "genre generator" websites where you can get on and generate specific conventions based on the genre it presents.

The first of these websites that I looked into was called SCIgen. When I went on I plugged in my closest friends names and it generated a paper titled "The Influence of Mobile Methodologies on Artificial Intelligence" at first glance you wouldn't know what the heck this paper is about. looking closer, you can see that the paper has all the conventions of a science research paper. It has the names of the "scientists" or researchers that worked on the project. It then leads on to an abstract, which is like a summary of the information that will be covered in the paper. Then the paper moves on to its introduction, which is basically the reasons of what and why the report was conducted. It is finally divided into sections explaining the different parts of the research. Towards the end of the paper it has its conclusion and references signaling all the data and research that was used and from where it was gathered. From first glance to a closer reading, you can tell that its wording is littered with scientific and computer jargon that one does not normally come across in our day to day lives. Its other convention is that its tone is very formal, direct and dry as compared to a novel or newspaper article. 

The next website I looked into was called pandyland.net, this was a website that focused on comic strip generating. These tend to be short 3 windowed, colored drawings of characters speaking through thought bubbles. In every generated comic strip it always had the same characters in different stances. The back ground and characters were drawn out in bright colors like pink or yellow to draw attention to them as you read their comments. The characters have short conversations that tend to have rude or profane comments. These would end up coming off as humorous tone. The conventions of this is that its scenes and dialogue pertain to a comic strip alone, its uniqueness in creating short scenes and stories based on its randomness. 

The third and final website that I looked at was a meme generator. In this website it produces and holds many different pictures of characters created on the internet with funny, witty, or ironic comments that relate to the picture. Some of these characters for example are spiderman, philosoraptor, or willy wanka. This type of genre is hilarious because a picture could be unrelated to the caption but putting them together triggers some comical senses in the viewer. The conventions of a meme are pictures of characters that have interesting captions that just want to make you blurt out laughing as you scroll by them or that they poke fun at a certain topic from society. 

After looking at these websites you can see how they help someone better understand a genre because each website follows a specific set of conventions that sets up the genre. A viewer can understand that these set of conventions are what make up the genre, for example in the SCIgen website, the way the paper was formatted can tell the viewer that this type of genre is a scientific research paper. This is also true for the other websites, it helps explain to the viewer to a genre that they may not familiar with like a meme. That genre is something very recent and many people might not comprehend unless they saw them through a website like this.