Rob Manuel
Rob Manuel (born 5 December 1973) is the English co-founder of the website B3ta (where he is affectionately known as the "Ginger Führer").
Work
Manuel is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. He has also colloborated 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 (usually accompanied by a Flash animation) before being released on CD. For a time, he presented the B3ta Radio Show on Resonance FM with David Stevenson.[1]
From 2013 to 2015, Manuel was editor of the Trinity Mirror web project UsVsTh3m.[2]
Manuel coded and runs Clickbait Robot, a Twitter bot that parodies clickbait headlines in web news content.[3][4]
Personal life
Manuel has three children and lives in Tufnell Park, London.
References
- ↑ Oates, John (2007-01-23), B3ta man victorious over Coca-Cola in music dispute, The Register, retrieved 2009-05-27
- ↑ http://usvsth3m.com/about
- ↑ http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2015/11/07/clickbait-robot-is-like-buzzfeed-if-it-was-run-by-an-insane-autopilot/
- ↑ http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/09/13/27-bits-of-surreally-amusing-clickbait-generated-by-a-bot/
External links
- http://www.b3ta.com/ – B3ta website
- http://www.b3ta.co.uk/ – Rob Manuel's personal showreel site
- http://www.robmanuel.com – Rob Manuel's blog
- https://twitter.com/robmanuel – Rob Manuel on Twitter
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2003/08/rob_manuel/rob_manuel.shtml – BBC interview.
- Rob Manuel discography at MusicBrainz
- Rob Manuel at the Internet Movie Database