We’re not quite sure just when it happened, but at a certain point Deadmau5 became a Twitter troll first and superstar EDM producer and performer second. But whilst his music career is still creatively (and financially) lucrative pursuit, he’s running out of ideas online.

His latest plot to get a rise out of the international electronic dance music community was #acromau5. The mouse head-wearing producer, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman, began tweeting out acrostic poems based on the names of famous EDM figures, including our own Alison Wonderland.

As you can expect, Zimmerman’s poems weren’t exactly glowing testaments to how much he admires each artist. Take his ode to Wonderland for example: “Another lame ingrate singing on NOTHING. Will obviously need deaf engineers recording. Lol. And nobody dances.”

Most of the replies to Zimmerman’s Wonderland-inspired acrostic were just suggestions of other DJs and producers he might like to apply his poetic skills to, except one from Wonderland herself, who was actually elated to be amongst the other names chosen by Zimmerman.

“I AM HONOURED,” Wonderland replied, before trying her hand at one of these acrostic poems. After all, Zimmerman looked like he was having a lot of fun, and he can take a joke. “Deadbeat emotional abusive doofus missing attention, using 5oapbox,” Wonderland wrote.

Boom. We must say, that even beats Zimmerman’s own take on himself, which he immortalised as “dickhead enters active deal, music always underimpresses. 5.” But of course by then Zimmerman had moved on to his next round of Twitter antics and reminded Wonderland, “#acromau5 was 2 days ago.”

“I was too busy living life in real life to see this but hey,” the Sydney DJ, producer, and vocalist replied, which is such a fire comeback she had clarify that she doesn’t have anything against the outspoken and often divisive Zimmerman.

“I have love. I enjoy a good word game too,” Wonderland replied to one friend who insisted Zimmerman was simply trolling with his acrostic games. “Guys if u [sic] actually think I was serious about the deadmau5 thing… Come on it’s just the internetz,” she later reiterated.

In fact, according to Zimmerman himself, he only managed to upset one unidentified DJ with #acromau5. “Aright,” he wrote, “that wraps up my first annual #acromau5. Outta all 50 DJs who had a sense of humour, I can count one on my middle finger who didn’t.”

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