Rob Manuel

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Rob Manuel
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Manuel in 2013
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Rob Manuel is the English co-founder of the website B3ta.

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Work

Manuel is responsible for numerous quizzes and Flash animations. For a time, he presented the B3ta Radio Show on Resonance FM with David Stevenson. [1]

Manuel has developed various social media bots, including Clickbait Robot (@clickbaitrobot, which parodies clickbait, [2] [3] Swear Clock (@swearclock, which posts the time using profanity), [4] and Fesshole (@fesshole, public confessions) [5] with a spin off book. [6]

In 2022, he recorded a mix for the song "Prince Andrew Is a Sweaty Nonce" by The Kunts. [7]

References

  1. Oates, John (23 January 2007), B3ta man victorious over Coca-Cola in music dispute, The Register , retrieved 27 May 2009
  2. Bryant, Martin (7 November 2015). "Clickbait Robot is like BuzzFeed on autopilot" . Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. Poke, The (13 September 2016). "27 bits of surreally amusing clickbait entirely generated by a robot" . Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  4. Metro.co.uk, Ellen Scott for (13 May 2017). "F*** your watch, this sweary Twitter account is the only clock you need" . Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  5. mirror.co.uk, Saffron Otter for (7 November 2022). "Meet the man thousands confess their darkest secrets to - that then go viral online". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  6. thebookseller.com, LAUREN BROWN for (22 April 2022). "Radar acquires 'wickedly funny' collection of Fesshole confessions in two-book deal" . Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. Trendell, Andrew (27 May 2022). "The Kunts on their Jubilee single 'Prince Andrew Is A Sweaty Nonce'". New Musical Express . Retrieved 27 May 2022.