InspiroBot

Submission 20,370

About

InspiroBot is a web application that generates random inspirational image macros that are often nonsensical, dark and/or confusing for comedic effect. These images parody inspirational posters similar to Demotivational Posters, but only superficially appear to inspire, deriving humor from the juxtaposition of the absurd quotes and dynamic photography.

History

On July 24th, 2015, Norwegian sound designer and coder Peder Jørgensen registered the domain for inspirobot.me.^[1]^[2] Two days later, the InspiroBot joined twitter, where it has since amassed more than 11,900 followers.^[3] That day, on July 26th, @TheInspiroBot posted its first image (shown below), a goldfish swimming in a tank with the caption "What is sane to an artist is unsane to an idiot."

The following day, on July 27th, InspiroBot launched its facebook account. As of June 2017, it has garnered more than 15,000 likes and followers.^[5]

Features

The InspiroBot has only one function: Generate inspirational quotes and images for users. When first going to the InspiroBot website, users are greeted with the following text:

I'm InspiroBot.
I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.

In addition to generating the slogans, users can share the images to Facebook and Twitter, download the picture, share via URL or have the image printed on a mug through Zazzle.

Highlights

On June 27th, 2017, Nerdist writer Michael Walsh^[4] reported that if you continued to click the "Generate" button on InspiroBot, the brief messages in-between the start of the inspiro sequence and the end would start to increasingly more absurd (example below). Nerdist wrote, "It turns out if you keep hitting “generate” well beyond any reasonable amount of time, InspiroBot starts to have some sort of existential freakout."