Michael Mumbauer’s Post

What’s more humanizing of AI than a minature human suited up as one! If you’ll be at San Diego Comic-Con this year, you may spot a mini computer that looks alot like this. Maybe, exactly like her. Who wants a Halloween costume for your own miniature humanoids? We don’t have em yet, but aren’t they cute as heck? Hard to miss. If you spot RantCPU, come say hi and grab a pack of RantCPU foil cards made by the fine folks at Liithos. While your at it, check out the weekly celebrity sports figure VS cards at Leaf and the LTD edition digital cards on Quidd. Rant and No One Is Safe are on sale right now!. MAD magazine lovers, these are not to be missed. RantCPU and NOIS are doing incredibly well for a new brand on Quidd’s marketplace. Alongside TMNT and other heavy weight IPs, I see a bright future for our quirky new IPs. Oh, and mark your calenders for RantCPU’s Clickbait game on Steam dropping free on July 23rd. Going to be a busy month! This winter, we’ll be kicking off RantCPU comics in stores thanks to out amazing partners at Scout. issue 5 is in the can, so you have a lot of reasons to visit your local comic shops starting this November. Even cooler, there’s a Christmas special the very next month! Remember when those were a thing?! Dynamic Duo, Ken Kristensen and M.K. Perker’s holiday book is one for the ages. It’s satire at it’s finest. Look for RantCPU comic solicitations in August, featuring variant Garbage Pail homage cover by the original GPK “Tee Vee Stevie” artist, Peter Bagge! And if that wasn’t enough, all you “My Little Pony Fans” out there, we got you covered with an original variant cover on the way from beloved Bronie artist, Katie Cooke! Last Rant channel news, the RantCPU childrens book, The Misadventures of RantCPU: Manhattan Mischief is stunning and an irreverent Curious George-esqu jaunt in my favorite city on earth. We haven’t tied up a publisher just yet, so if this piques your curiosity, ping me. Let’s get kids back in the world and off their Ipads! I know I need to get mine checking out the sites and not just in Roblox! Phew. That’s a lot of ranting… #liithos #hedera #sdcc #ipdevelopment #leaf #quidd #scout #steam #gamedev #transmedia #videogames #web3 #heatingup #hotsummer #rantcpu #tiktok #comics #tradingcards #lfg

It you’re a pop culture and sports fan, these Leaf Trading Cards are just spectacular. Leaf is the best at what they do in the collectibles space and it shows in quality of their products. If you’re old enough to recall Tim Conway’s Dorf on sports videos, there are hints of Tim in these RantCPU cards. I think you can still pick up the Steph Curry card if you hurry. https://lnkd.in/gGTecsCV These are only open for a short window, so don’t miss out. In a few weeks, we’ll be releasing a gamified RantCPU card experiment on STEAM. Should be interesting to see what happens! Stay tuned!

Happy 4th Linkedin! In a week, Liithos will have it’s first preview of NO ONE IS SAFE! https://lnkd.in/gcKPB8Cv Ignore the NOIS in the real world and enjoy an all new kind of parody & satirical kind of silliness. Is anyone really safe? No One Is Safe is a part of the fantastical world created by the mischievous chatbot RantCPU. You won’t want to miss these! NOIS brings back the irreverent commentary of MAD Magazine that our world needs more than ever. This is an extremely limited drop brought to you by our friends at QUIDD marketplace. The fun begins on 7/11!

What I love about TikTok is that the audience allows you to experiment. We live in a world where it’s very difficult to try new things because we’re terrified of how the audiences with react. You might hate TT because the expectations of content are low. I would challenge that and say the audience there is just more open to experimentation and unconventional thinking. We’ve experimented with what the TikTok Gen defines as “Brainrot” This is also the same content that Banana is providing on Steam. The older generations don’t get it. In fact, they detest it. Why? Because they don’t connect with it and aren’t willing to take the time to underatand it. This happened with comic books and RocknRoll. This is just a generational shift. It’s a youth counterculture movement based on what they think adults hate. And they are right. Comics, RocknRoll, Rap, Videogames, TikTok and metal music will destroy our youth. It’s the same song. Just a new generation singing it. #brainrot

In just a few weeks, Liithos will begin testing the TikTok ad funnel for gaming on Steam. The Leaf partnership has been an amazing test of the power of TikTok and RantCPU. In our first tests, we’re already seeing a 2X above average CTR. As of April 2024, the average click-through rate (CTR) for TikTok ads is 0.84%, our Ads are getting 1.80%. We have several Steam releases in the pipeline and fingers crossed that we see similar coversion results on Steam. I’m optimistic that they will. RantCPU has overdelivered in every category that we have released him in so far. 🙏 Maybe it’s the hair? In other news… It’s super exciting to see the reactions of fans to Rant as he sits alongside some of the biggest sports figures in the world! Check out Rant with Steph Curry! Next up is one of the biggest UFC fighters to set foot in the octagon. This is just the beginning…

To kick off the Leaf/RantCPU collaboration, we tested an ad for the first card. This is the first direct marketing test with a call-to-action for a RantCPU related item. The Ad cost was around $250 the results were an .8% ctr which is pretty damn good for a first test. over 11k actively engaged potential customers for a few hundred dollars in advertising. So much more to come from this funnel but I firmly believe this is the future of go-to-market strategies for gaming and a whole lot more. We don't need to spend millions of dollars in advertising to reach the audiences we want to convert. Stay tuned for more updates!

It’s official! The only games “gamers” want are shooters… and a banana. We can now add Banana to the list of categories that will get your game funded in 2024. 😆

Any Homelander fans out there? How’s eveyone liking This Season of the greatest show on TV? Whose a fan and who’se watching?!