What does deadmau5 stand for?

Answer 1

He found a dead mouse in his computer graphics card, then later when he was playing Starcraft he wanted to make his username deadmouse, but that was too long so he shortened it to Deadmau5, and that later became his stagename.

Answer 2

NO! A person wrote that on his Wikipedia bio then it spread everywhere. Deadmau5 is fully alive and even wrote about his disappointment in the boring fake death the person made up.

Answer 3

Deadmau5 is pronounced Dead Mouse. He got the name from the time a mouse crawled into his computer.

Long death our Deadmau5

Answer 4

It stands for the name of a rapper which is pronounced as dead mouse but spelled differently.

Answer 5

Joel Thomas Zimmerman

Answer 6

January 5th, 1981