Outspoken Canadian producer, Deadmau5, has returned to social media site Twitter after finding it difficult to have well publicised and contrived controversies without use of the social media platform.
“It’s been a boring few months,” explained the mouse head wearing EDM star. “Without Twitter it’s difficult to have the kind of well publicised spats that I’m known for. I tried other forms of social media but it’s not the same. Not having a 140 character limit means you can argue your point continually and succinctly without any misunderstandings arising from how you phrase your pithy remarks and that really stops the argument from developing in a way that’s going to get reported on which is, after all, the entire point.”
Reports claim that a Twitterless Deadmau5, real name Joel Zimmerman, tried to spout his opinionated musings using a variety of different platforms including writing graffiti on toilet walls while defecating, shouting from hilltops and skywriting messages above Los Angeles.
“Yeah I tried a lot of things in my Twitter detox but none of them really worked as well as Twitter,” explained Deadmau5. “When I’d write graffiti on toilet walls I’d have to revisit the same cubicle to see if anyone responded to my opinion but all I got were offers of ‘hot gay sex’ or drawings of penises. When I did the skywriting thing it failed too because it’s expensive, only lasts for few minutes and unfortunately you can’t retweet the sky. And believe me, I’ve tried.”
Friends of the DJ have claimed that he “was lost without Twitter” which he’d come to rely on to “vent his frustrations” and that without Twitter as an outlet for his every thought the DJ became angry and disillusioned with “everyone and everything” resulting in “notepads filled with misanthropic ravings, punched walls and, in one instance, a terrified old homeless woman”.
“Yeah look I don’t want to talk about how I repeatedly punched that homeless old woman and whether or not she deserved it,” said a dismissive Deadmau5. “I know I shouldn’t have hit her and that she only wanted some spare change to buy a sandwich but, and this excuse is no excuse, I was genuinely tense from missing Twitter and her pathetic face and voice were really, really annoying.”
“I guess a part of me also figured that there was no such thing as bad publicity and that if I hit her maybe I’d get on the news,” explained the producer, “but unfortunately it never made the news because without my Twitter presence I can’t push my agendas…plus the woman was homeless and therefore not sympathetic enough for the mainstream media.”
“Although Fox News did run it with a ‘concerned citizen fights homeless’ angle, but unfortunately it was quite tame compared to the rest of their coverage and so didn’t stand out,” he added.
Deadmua5 is confident that now that he’s back on Twitter he can put the whole sorry episode behind him and get back to what he does best, creating controversy online.
