Rob Manuel


Rob Manuel is the English co-founder of the website B3ta.

Work

Manuel is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. He has also collaborated with Joel Veitch 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 Internet before being released on CD. For a time, he presented the B3ta 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 bots, including Clickbait Robot and Swear Clock.

Personal life

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