I Asked ChatGPT-4o and Gemini Advanced to Generate a Meme for Writers

I made an experiment and I had to choose which AI would suit my needs. The results were hilarious. And my decision is made!

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I’m now starting to be more active on X. I want to build my profile there to support my writing journey. 

My ultimate target: enable full monetization. For that, I need:

• 500 followers — that’s feasible

• 5m organic impressions for the last 3 months — the real challenge 

So far it was slow. 

To get (and maintain) 5m impressions you need volume and quality content, the X-compatible type. 

Every platform has its own “language”. 

The good thing: I can use AI freely. 

Before you judge: No, I’m not churning content from the AI and directly pasting it on social media. I developed my own AI content generation system to produce high-quality content fast. It’s granular: for each purpose, I train the AI in a dedicated Gemini chat or create a dedicated GPT. I described it here. 

So for now I needed to choose which of my AI friends should help me specifically for building my X profile. 

The dilemma: which AI to choose, Gemini Advanced or ChatGPT-4o? I was not going to train the AI in my own style and language before I made this decision. It’s a time-consuming process, so I wanted to be sure I bet on the right horse. 

So I made an experiment with memes. 

Why memes? 

Because it’s the closest style to X. 

I asked for two types of memes:

• Sarcastic, provocative, and arrogant style 

• Standard funny style  

Generating sarcastic memes about writers 

Here’s the prompt I used with both AIs:

“Can you generate a sarcastic, provocative, and arrogant meme about writers? Give me a text description of the image and the texts for the actual meme” 

For Geminin I had to specify explicitly that I only needed text for prompts for Midjourney, otherwise, I got an answer that it’s still not generating images, but working on it. 

The first thing that I noticed was the name of the chat both AI’s generated:

• ChatGPT-4o: “Arogant Meme Request”

• Gemini Advanced: “Writers vs. Everyone Else” 

You see it? As if Gemini already has a “personality”….

Let’s see the outputs. 

I generated several memes, all were similar styles, I’m gonna share the best one from each AI to keep it short.

Gemini best response:

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I love how Gemini described the Midjourney prompt. I used it in Midjourney, then made a meme in Canva — the final result should look something like this:

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Ha! Good one! 

Now, this one made me think…I need to give the AI a role. Why is it generating a meme of a programmer talking about writers? 

Or it actually has a personality now?

My takeaway: I need to specify the point of view. 

This was never needed for ChatGPT, let’s see how it did…

ChatGTP-4o best response:

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Maybe because ChatGPT has it’s own image generation (which is way behind the quality of Midjourney), the image description is not so descriptive. But again, I used it as a prompt for Midjourney, then made a meme in Canva — the final result should look something like this:

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This made my day, these AI’s now know how to entertain! 

But here again, I have the 3rd party point of view, although the role is not specified. 

So my takeaway is valid: I need to define roles and points of view of the conversation. 

One more thing I noticed: both AIs went in the same direction: making the writers’ work less important, and insignificant. Probably because I asked for arrogance. 

Let’s see what happens when I don’t put that limitation…

Generating funny memes about writers

I continued in the same chat for both AIs asking to generate now funny memes. And I’ve got this:

Gemini Advanced best response: 

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Again, I have a very good prompt for Midjourney. The final result should look like this: 

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Isn’t this our reality right now as writers 😆

Now that I didn't explicitly want sarcasm, Gemini created the meme from the point of view of the writer. Self-irony is one of the most powerful features when you need to create memes. The choice of the image is close to perfect. 

I loved this one! 

Let’s see what ChatGPT’s got…

ChatGPT-4o’s best result:

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Hillarious! 

The concept of the meme is amazing! I loved that one too! Again a pinch of a self-irony. And the pain is a spot-on. 

The choice of the image can be elaborated, I’d go with something on fire. 

To wrap it up

Gemini’s voice seems more engaging and sharp — exactly the one I need for a platform like X. ChatGPT is a good alternative for the texts, but not so much for the image choices. 

My decision is made: I’m gonna go with Gemini for X. 

What’s next: I’ll have to gather some super viral posts on X to train the AI with them and with my own articles to give it some of my “wisdom”. 

I’ll also share with you exactly how I did that once I’m ready. Stay tuned! 

Thanks for reading!