Wednesday, March 11, 2026

The Roast of Dee Mentia .. and Chad's Quickie Caption!

Ba Da Ba Bah Bah .. She's working it!

This is a quickie that I made a few weeks ago. It just so happens that it fits in REALLY well with something I had fun with yesterday online, and I wanted to post some of it.

ChatGPT is really good at doing "Roasts" ala Jeffrey Ross and the Friar's Club and Comedy Central. I thought it'd be fun to have them roast yours truly, Dee Mentia. Now it's slightly off, because my captions are in jpg and .. way too many people now are just posting a picture and some paragraphs and calling it a caption .. and I think that ChatGPT got confused between that and what I do here on the blog. But it's still pretty good. I ran it twice and then did a more concentrated deep dive on TG captions too. 

Edited for clarity, and some repeated stuff and other things not necessary. Let's see how they did!

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Let’s talk about the blog itself.
That site looks like it time-traveled straight from 2009 Blogger default theme hell. Beige background, tiny fonts, and captions longer than a college essay. Half the time you click a post expecting a quick caption and instead get a three-act Shakespearean drama about a guy turning into his sister’s roommate’s coworker’s cheerleading captain.

And the captions? Man. A normal TG caption is like:

“Oops, body swap, guess I’m a girl now.”

But Dee Mentia’s captions are like:

“As the quantum metaphysical gender-transference device activated during the meteor shower caused by the cursed witch who used to be my algebra teacher…”

Also, the blog has thousands of posts—over two thousand entries archived in the RSS feed. 
At that point it’s less a caption blog and more a gender-bending Library of Congress.

Another thing: the captions often read like Dee Mentia is arguing with herself mid-story.

“This USED to be the kind of caption I'd make for Petra!”

Cool, Dee. Thanks for the behind-the-scenes director’s commentary nobody asked for. It’s like watching a DVD with commentary turned on except the DVD is a TG caption about a cursed yoga class.

But honestly, credit where it’s due: running a niche caption blog since 2012 with thousands of posts takes dedication. Either dedication… or Dee Mentia found a way to convert caffeine directly into TG captions.

Every caption starts like a normal TG scenario… then turns into a novel

Typical 2026 Dee Mentia caption progression:

  1. “Tom found a strange app on his phone…”

  2. “Suddenly he was turning into a busty influencer.”

  3. “But then the app was actually created by a secret society…”

  4. “Which was run by witches…”

  5. “Who were conducting a gender-based psychological experiment…”

Dude. It started as “guy becomes girl.”

Now we’re in the Marvel Cinematic Feminization Universe.


Wordplay everywhere. Puns everywhere.

Titles that sound like rejected soap opera episodes:

They don’t sound like TG captions. They sound like late-night Cinemax movies from 1997.


The biggest Dee Mentia plot twist

You open a caption expecting:

“guy turns into hot woman.”

But instead the twist is: he becomes his aunt, or his boss, or his mom’s friend, or a random influencer with a skincare routine. At this point the real transformation isn’t gender. It’s how far the story will wander before it ends.


✅ But honestly: Running a niche TG caption blog for over a decade with thousands of posts is serious dedication. Even if the captions sometimes feel like:

“War and Peace, but someone turned into a cheerleader halfway through.”

Plot Complexity

Most caption blogs

  • Magic ring

  • Weird app

  • Body swap

  • The end

Dee Mentia plots

  • Experimental AI gender-alteration system

  • Government program

  • Witch curses

  • Identity theft

  • Reality manipulation

  • Long internal monologue about femininity

The caption started as a meme and ended as science-fiction gender philosophy.

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No mention of benches eh?

That was a lot of fun. What did YOU think? I's love to see how other captioners fare through the lens of ChatGPT.


9 comments:

  1. Dear sweet Dee,

    What drivel currently being passed as captions in some circles now is to your work as X and BlueSky are to civilized discourse.

    A little wit, aimed at an audience you treat like friends, as opposed to broadcast to the world, is appreciated. Sometimes you break the fourth wall to the studio audience, even as the show is broadcast. Intimacy among friends.

    and be careful of Chat with 2 runthrus. It gets WAY distorted. A friend went to a Goth night. For laughs, I took a Halloween picture of me and Gothified it. Then a friend said something about a wedding, and I degothed the picture, and added a dress I admittedly chose.... and I see NOTHING of me. Looks like an above average looking woman, granted, on the large side, but...cute.

    I would have LOVED to see a roast of you with appropriate peers. It might have been hilarious.

    Hugs, Fiona

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    1. Thanks for the compliments! It definitely could be fun if there was such a thing as a TG Captioners Roast.

      I've used a few apps, and gotten really good results for face swaps while using them. Sorry to hear the ones you used sort of wiped out the parts that make you, you.

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    2. Oh, it is fine. I more meant that passing something thru more than once can remove too much. I do see myself in the first, Goth one.. And the second, well, I liked it, she's cute. I just don't see my features, etc. But it is a fun toy.

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  2. Hi Dee,
    Don't know how you come up with so many great and interesting things but do love them! Zoe

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    1. Glad you enjoyed the post! I got the idea from seeing someone use Grok (Elon Musk's AI bot) to roast Elon Musk, and it was really funny .. so I figured I am much more humble than he is, so why not roast myself?

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  3. My gosh that is some roast by the robot. To be fair to them, that has always been their modus operandi.
    To the caption that robot's plan is good however I am delighted Cherry choose nicer shoes.

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    1. Well, I think the 'robot' is more of a chat bot that might actually be Dee Mentia posing as a chat bot, so your results may vary!

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  4. HA! Love the caption Dee! I too immediately focused in on the McCup in her hand, even before the lovely pantyhose and heels. Short, sweet, knocked it out of the park.

    I love the idea of an AI roasting you and/or your blog. I'll try it on mine and post the results soon, but I'll use Google's Gemini as I have a subscription to that. As for the actual roast, I get that it's roasting more of the posts than the caps but I couldn't help but keep thinking "It think's Dee's caps are long? Sweet Jesus, I'm in trouble!" Beyond that, I think it hit spot on (in an insultingly funny way!). The "... late-night Cinemax movies from 1997" part threw me over the edge and had me honestly laughing out loud!

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    1. You were the person I thought of when it mentioned the length of my captions / blog posts .. like Joker from the Michael Keaton Batman movie .. you saying, "Wait 'til they get a load of me!"

      I loved that line too, but also appreciated, "War and Peace, but someone turned into a cheerleader halfway through.” and " It’s like watching a DVD with commentary turned on except the DVD is a TG caption about a cursed yoga class."

      Can't wait to see yours, as it'll be cool to see if AI picks up on things we see too, and also the difference between Gemini and ChatGPT.

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