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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Their A Cappella cover of "Gangnam Style" resulted in more than one listener going "...What." then bursting out in laughter and listening to it again.
  • Broken Base:
    • Whether or not Scott leads too many songs and/or has too many solos. Some fans are fine with it, as the group have made it clear that they openly discuss the solo division, and Avi, Kirstin and Kevin have also stated that they are comfortable singing back-up. Other fans are disappointed that the other members have only lead a hand-full of songs each, and would prefer to see a more equal division in the future.
    • Their cover of Ride by Twenty One Pilots wasn't met too warmly by fans, with some feeling that the group could have gone for a better arrangement, some who felt that the song should have been left alone, and others who liked the cover just fine.
    • Whether the group should move onto original songs or continue doing covers. The group have stated that they'll never stop doing covers, but some fans want want them to leave the covers behind entirely, while others aren't fond of any original material and want things to remain as they are.
  • Estrogen Brigade: There's a lot of women who were only at their concerts for Avi.
  • Fan Nickname: Kevin and Avi are known as "Meat" and "Potatoes", respectively, after a comment from Shawn Stockman christening the duo during their time on The Sing-Off (basically, they're the solid foundation of the band).
  • Fan-Preferred Couple:
    • Scomiche, for obvious reasons.
    • Then there are some fans who would prefer Mitch and Avi together. It helps that they are the only single people in the group.
    • Despite the fact that she was (at the time) engaged, there were still a great number of fans who wanted to see Avi and Kirstin together.
  • Memetic Badass: Avi, thanks to a combination of the beard and the voice. Fans are pretty much in agreement that even just listening to the sound of his voice will put a child in every woman and a beard on every man. It's arguably even justified by the fact that he once hit a note so low that he blew out a speaker in the middle of a song.
  • Portmanteau Couple Name: All of the main "ships", platonic or not, such as Scavi, Mevin, Mirstie, etc. The only major exceptions are Avi and Kevin, who are known as Meat and Potatoes, which was a nickname that was given to them during their time of The Sing-Off and Scott and Mitch, who are known as Scomiche, a mutation of their names which they themselves developed on a particularly strange episode of "Superfruit".
  • Tear Jerker: "Run To You", especially since its association with a very sad Homestuck fan-comic where the Dolorosa loses her adopted son the Sufferer, is Made a Slave, murdered by Dualscar and then reunited with her son in death.
    • Avi leaving the group for many people, especially when you watch the video where he's choked up about it.


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