Rob Manuel (born 5 December 1973) is the English co-founder of the website

B3ta B3ta (stylised as b3ta) is a popular United Kingdom, British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by ''The Guardian''. It was founded in 2001 by Rob Manuel, Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson. B3ta's main feature is a newslet ...

(where he is affectionately known as "the Ginger Führer").

Work

Manuel is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. He has also collaborated with

Joel Veitch Joel Veitch (born 28 March 1974) is a British web animator, singer-songwriter, and member of the humour website B3ta. Veitch is owner of the web site RatherGood where he showcases many of his animations. Joel has also created the Mr. Stabby a ...

and Ben Wheatley producing videos for Tomboy Virals. Together with Jonti Picking, under the names Weebl and Chums, he released a mini-album, ''Pure Yak Frenzy'', consisting of various tunes and earworms created by one or both of them. Most of these tracks gained popularity on the

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(usually accompanied by a Flash animation) before being released on CD. For a time, he presented the

Radio Show on Resonance FM with David Stevenson. He edited joke website Sickipedia and spin-off book ''The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes''. The website was accused of plagiarism by comedian Gary Delaney, but added an attribution feature to the website to counter this. From 2013 to 2015, Manuel was editor of the Trinity Mirror web project UsVsTh3m. Manuel has developed various

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

bots, including Clickbait Robot (''@clickbaitrobot'', which parodies clickbait) and Swear Clock (''@swearclock'', which tweets the time using profanity). In 2022, he recorded a mix for the song " Prince Andrew Is a Sweaty Nonce" by

The Kunts Kunt and the Gang is a British dark musical comedian from Basildon, Essex, who started performing in 2003. He is also known for founding the spin-off project The Kunts, whose songs entitled "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" and "Boris Johnson ...

Personal life

Manuel has three children and lives in Tufnell Park, London.

References

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