Munira Hamzah, known as Mumu the Stan, is a Malaysian visual artist and poet based in Kuala Lumpur who works mainly in pixel art and digital illustration. A longtime fan of the band Linkin Park, she began minting NFTs in February 2021 after singer Mike Shinoda offered to buy one of her pieces, and later left her job as a creative lead to make art full time.
The name Mumu the Stan began as an anonymous 'stan Twitter' account she created to post fan art without revealing her identity, and it took off after Shinoda noticed her work during one of his Twitch livestreams. The pixel animation that drew her into the NFT world depicted Shinoda and his wife dancing to his song 'Booty Down,' and it became her first NFT and first sale, bought by Shinoda himself. She has said she does not keep to one style, explaining: “If you made it, it's your style.”
