History YMMV / Deadmau5

* JerkassWoobie: On one hand, you have the "cranky", [[ClusterFBomb constantly cussing]], immature {{Troll}} [[{{Jerkass}} who has a reputation of being a huge jerk]], and on the other hand, you have the [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rough and socially awkward, but nice guy]] [[http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/kids-today.html who loves kids]] and teaching music, babies his cat to the point of obesity (and writes songs about him!), has serious self-loathing, suffers from "severe depression and anxiety", [[IJustWantToBeNormal laments his lack of a quiet social life]], [[http://choleric-mau5.blogspot.com/2010/08/falling-up.htm is terrified of failure]], and has a reputation for bending over backwards to please his fans and being a blast to hang out with.

* NewbieBoom: After ''Ghosts N Stuff''.

* OddFriendship: Despite hating many EDM celebrities (and the genre itself), Joel seems to get along quite well with Steve Aoki, CalvinHarris, Nicky Romero, Alesso, Zedd, and Dillon Francis.

** Joel's admitting to suffering from mental illnesses, namely depression and anxiety, which really came to a head in 2015 when [[CreatorBreakdown he publicly debated whether or not to end his music career and start over from scratch]].
* WhenHeSmiles: Nowadays, he's very depressed and has been quite despondent, so if he genuinely smiles (which is rare), you can't help but feel at least a little bit touched.
** [[https://twitter.com/SOFIofficial/status/896790063312363520 This,]] at the reception to his wedding to Kelly Fedoni. The smile on his face is just awesome.

** the sudden ToneShift in "Raise Your Weapon" divides a lot of his fans. Some prefer the sad piano part and think that the dubstep part [[MoodWhiplash ruins an otherwise great song]], and other view the first half as [[ProlongedPrologue a long and boring intro]] to the actual good sounds.

** Joel's online disses and overall flippant attitude towards Avicii and his music is much tougher to take in strid after the latter's death in April 2018, [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6224569/avicii-suicide-cause-death-glass-bottle-oman-hotel/ especially once it was discovered his death was the result of suicide]].

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards Music/{{Avicii}} and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018, [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6224569/avicii-suicide-cause-death-glass-bottle-oman-hotel/ especially once it was discovered his death was the result of suicide]].

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards Avicii and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018, [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6224569/avicii-suicide-cause-death-glass-bottle-oman-hotel/ especially once it was discovered his death was the result of suicide]].

* SugarWiki/WhenSheSmiles: When He Smiles: Nowadays, he's very depressed and has been quite despondent, so if he genuinely smiles (which is rare), you can't help but feel at least a little bit touched.

* HeartwarmingMoments:

-->"@deadmau5 @mrtommyland now UR planning a romantic getaway? Don't flatter urself Joel - he asked me the same thing earlier today pffft"
--> '''Tommy Lee''': "@[=SOFIofficial=] @deadmau5 Busted!"

** [[Franchise/LoveLive Go EDM somewhere else]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]When mashup artist Triple-Q jokingly told Joel that he "sucked because he wouldn't do a remix of Snow Halation like [[Music/{{Skrillex}} Skrillex would]], Joel proceed to assume Snow Halation one of the big room house songs he loves to hate and told Triple-Q to "go EDM somewhere else." After tons of Twitter users proceed to Tweet tons of Love Live tweets at him, he proceeded to go on an angry rant trashing the show and it's fanbase as a bunch of "creepy fucks" before deleting the entire conversation[[/labelnote]]

* SweetDreamsFuel: "The Veldt", at least less so if you don't know [[HolodeckMalfunction the story it's based on]].

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: Nowadays, he's very depressed and has been quite despondent, so if he genuinely smiles (which is rare), you can't help but feel at least a little bit touched.
** [[https://twitter.com/SOFIofficial/status/896790063312363520 This,]] at the reception to his wedding to Kelly Fedoni. The smile on his face is just awesome.

* OddFriendship: Despite hating many EDM celebrities (and the genre itself), Joel seems to get along quite well with Steve Aoki, CalvinHarris, Nicky Romero, Alesso, and Dillon Francis.

** After finding out about Avicii's death, Joel took the time to give a genuinely heartfelt message to him and his family, stating that past all the banter between the two, he truly did respect what Tim accomplished for the dance music industry.

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards Avicii and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018, especially once it was discovered his death was the result of [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6224569/avicii-suicide-cause-death-glass-bottle-oman-hotel/ suicide]].

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards Avicii and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018.

** After finding out about Avicii's death, Joel took the time to give a genuinely heartfelt message to him and his family, stating that past all the banter between the two, he truly did respect what Tim's accomplished for the dance music industry.

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards [[Music/Avicii]] and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018.

** Joel's disses online and overall flippant attitude towards Music/Avicii and his music became a lot tougher to laugh at after the latter's death in April 2018.

* BrokenBase: A minor example. While {{Flame War}}s hardly ever break out, there is nevertheless a distinct rift between the old guard (usually ''Random Album Title'' and earlier) and the new fans (usually ''For Lack of a Better Name'' and later). This was brought about by his sudden swell in popularity following the release of "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" in 2008, new fans brought in by his newer albums such as ''4x4=12'' (which generally isn't well-liked among the old guard), and his changing style over time, as seen in "Early Album Weirdness" on the main page.

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: Nowadays, he's very depressed and has been quite despondent, so if he genuinely smiles (which is rare), you can't help but feel at least a little bit touched.

* FriendlyFandoms: His fandom tends to overlap with that of {{Skrillex}}'s. This is especially evident in how you can spot mau5head-wearing fans at Skrillex concerts. Unfortunately, the friendliness has died down a bit now that Joel and Sonny no longer seem to like each other.

* HoYay: Often has it with {{Skrillex}} and especially [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee]], the latter of which was taken UpToEleven when the two of them were blatantly flirting with each other on Twitter.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Skrillmau5 for SlashFic involving him and {{Skrillex}}.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: His [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxNIfVIUdU live shows]] have to be seen to be believed. Music/DaftPunk may have practically invented the "epic lights and effects electronic show" idea, but deadmau5 popularized it, leading to [[FollowTheLeader similar show setups]] such as {{Skrillex}}'s "cell" and Music/{{Excision}}'s "Executioner".

* FandomRivalry: Dubstep fans who don't like {{Skrillex}} tend to embrace deadmau5 instead. Ironic in that deadmau5 isn't really a dubstep artist (what with only two dubstep songs actually released as opposed to the ''many'' house tracks) and that he was the one who signed on Skrillex's ''Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP'' onto mau5trap and kickstarted his career.

** Aaaaand his friend Steve Duda. Deadmau5 ''loves'' this trope.

** "[X]mau5 - [Y] 'n' Stuff", such as "Breadmau5 - Toast 'n' Stuff", which is a parody of "Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff". Variations are often posted all over the place in the comments for mau5-related Website/YouTube videos.

* FriendlyFandoms: His fandom tends to overlap with that of {{Skrillex}}'s. This is especially evident in how you can spot mau5head-wearing fans at Skrillex concerts.

** Around late 2014, a fan sent Joel his to-be-autographed copy of ''while (1<2)'' and disposable camera, [[http://imgur.com/UNcfRp9 which he received about a month later.]] Soon afterwards, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFiqq0q_0qA he sent them both back to the fan with autographs and several random photos and selfies of his studio taken with the camera.]] [[http://imgur.com/a/0nanm All the pictures can be found here.]]

** [[Franchise/LoveLive Go EDM somewhere else]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]When mashup artist Triple-Q jokingly told Joel that he "sucked because he wouldn't do a remix of Snow Halation like [[Music/Skrillex Skrillex would,]] Joel proceed to assume Snow Halation one of the big room house songs he loves to hate and told Triple-Q to "go EDM somewhere else." After tons of Twitter users proceed to Tweet tons of Love Live tweets at him, he proceeded to go on an angry rant trashing the show and it's fanbase as a bunch of "creepy fucks" before deleting the entire conversation[[/labelnote]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Tons. Many of his songs could be pointed to as "awesome", but the ambient 10-minute-long epic "Strobe" is often cited as his best song by many fans. Other popular choices for "awesome music" include "Ghosts 'n Stuff" (both the original and the vocal mix), "I Remember", "Raise Your Weapon", "Professional Griefers", and "Cthulhu Sleeps", but it's safe to say that nearly ''any'' song of his, especially those released in the last few years, could be a viable contender for being awesome.

* HeartwarmingMoments: On his Facebook, he made a post stating that although ''while (1<2)'' didn't win its Grammy Award nomination, he would gladly see the award go to Music/AphexTwin (for ''Syro''), one of his biggest influences into starting his career. The post even ends with Joel saying "well deserved Richard :D".