B3ta
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Type of site
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Digital Arts Community, Message board |
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| Owner | Rob Manuel, Cal Henderson, Denise Wilton |
| Created by | Communal |
| Website | b3ta.com |
| Alexa rank |
 73,116 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional, Required to post |
| Launched | 2001 |
B3ta /ˈbiːtə/ (stylised as b3ta) is a popular 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 newsletter featuring the latest work of the B3ta community and other interesting, humorous or perverse things found on the Web. The newsletter has about 100,000 readers. A message board allows members to post digital images and short animations they have created, the ones considered the best appearing on the front page, along with various announcements. Previously there was a B3ta radio show on the London station Resonance FM. To inspire creative works, B3ta poses a weekly image challenge, such as "if cats ruled the world", and a "question of the week", for example asking "what's your most embarrassing injury?"
Many popular Internet phenomena were created by B3ta members (also called "b3tans or "B3tards"). These include the Macromedia Flash cartoons created by Joel Veitch and Jonti Picking, the surrealist animations by Cyriak Harris, and the quizzes by Rob Manuel.
The newsletter is published sporadically to a group of about 100,000 subscribers with great care taken not to accidentally publish it either weekly or on Friday afternoons. It features the best work by members of the B3ta community. Famous examples include Rob Manuel's Female or Shemale, Jonti Picking's Badger Badger Badger, and Joel Veitch's Punk Rock Kittens. Generally, the newsletter consists of the following sections:
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