After playing the Jackbox game "Job Job", we found it funny when random absurd motivational posters would appear. I thought I'd try my hand at it, then decided it'd be even funnier if we could use a LLM and image generation to make it even more random and absurd. It, obviously, expanded into memes.
It started as a sort of proof of concept in PHP and went from there, so it keeps getting things tacked on. I decided to move it to React to make it easier it update and expand on.
Example .env files are included showing the environment variables that are used.
I use sequelize with a local MySQL server, but you should be able to change it to whatever you need. Models are included for the database tables I use, so you should be able to recreate them. They were built and added on to sort of randomly, so they don't really follow a standard.
Tip
Each of the main items: memes and messages are done in the following formats to allow for random word replacements that add to the fun:
Challenges are [PLURAL] in disguise.
Where [PLURAL] is the type of item in the word table that will be replaced. More advanced things can be done like:
Don't leave [PLACE|home] without it!
A pipe in after the type with the original word will allow the site to give an equal chance of pulling the original word or a replacement word.
Don't compare your [NOUN] to someone else's [NOUN||0].
A second pipe with a number tells the site to use one of the previous (zero-based) replacements again.
You can use any "type" of word you want in the words table. I have the basics like noun, plural, adj, verb, verbing, person, place. It just uses the keyword when querying the table to filter.
I also have a lyrics table that I added on a whim that has lyrics from songs that can be added a certain points. It was a pain to add, so I should've done it differently. But, it's set up just like the memes and messages tables.
The prompts table is just a few random prompts that will be used if you don't have an LLM to use or if you have memes/messages with words you'd rather not send to an LLM or Image Generator. 🤷