Discussion Freshy's response
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r/ERB • u/supERBduper • Oct 18 '24
Discussion Vote for your favorite ERB characters here!
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Like Schaffrillas' video on the community's favorite Mario characters, we're doing one for ERB characters:
In the form below, you will list 5 ERB characters you enjoy the most to make our compiled community list for favorite characters, not just rappers, but cameos and anyone else that counts too (see form for details)
As a bonus feature, you can only make ONE character have a second vote to give them an extra point
As another bonus feature, this includes a negative vote choice for a least favorite character/one you would like to remove a point to, which you can do to 2 if you want (1 is mandatory, but the other is optional)
Make sure they fit the criteria of being a character/figure in ERB, which means they have a wiki page, appear in a video released by ERB or are counted on here: https://epicrapbattlesofhistory.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_characters_from_Epic_Rap_Battles_of_History
Form to submit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3W3NI-g6v25vBSMWnoXocPP4-yKY2Yb9enlGjfGjaFB402Q/viewform
If you have any questions or want to see results when they reveal, join the server here: https://discord.com/invite/hkyPGMBNaf
r/ERB • u/Effective-Size-3824 • May 10 '25
Discussion Tips for those who want to make suggestions
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This applies to both community as well as ERB suggestions (not including joke matchups of course since those wouldn't be affected), so to clarify, I'm only doing this post as an assistance to help refine the way how most can approach coming up with ideas and so I'll do exactly that
The flaws I've noticed:
-The "Both both both both both" reasonings
It's not a good look generally when you have to constantly state this as an attempt to make your idea look good because most of what you're going to say ends up leaving you with "connections" that comes off as illogical stretches that can't be taken seriously like "Both have movie adaptations" in addition to having stuff that can literally apply to ANYONE whether it'd be fictional or historical
-You don't need to elaborate hard
Most ERB matchups are condensed to either one or two reasonings, some mainly require one to essentially summarize the entire concept of what you're trying to formulate
Examples: Ulysses S. Grant vs Captain America, Civil War fighting leaders
Wayne Gretzky vs Tony Hawk, Athletes known for different types of skating
P. T. Barnum vs Vince McMahon, Ringleaders of massive entertainment businesses
Two users do this extraordinarily well:
https://www.reddit.com/user/NPRNilk/
https://www.reddit.com/user/Defiant-Oil5587/
Anything to convey your idea in a simple, yet effective way possible helps it catch on better when it's easy to understand
-Distasteful reasonings
Having the ideas centered on death, health/disability problems, tragic events, morbid reasonings, etc. doesn't make for something comedic nor creative in the slightest especially if they're both about recent (not historical) events involving actual victims, and if it seems like you're coming off as a tryhard unfunny edgelord, avoid it
-Focusing on things the characters wouldn't be fighting about
Generally it wouldn't be doable if the point of the matchup is how much both of them are shitty at what they did like James Buchanan vs Warren G. Harding because they're the worst presidents or something that hardly relates to them like GLaDOS vs Marie Antoinette just because they had a quote about cake, which at that point sounds like a stretch about why ERB would pair them up
-Figures that are either too dry to care for or just come from something esoteric for ERB viewers
To put it simply, ERB can do figures that definitely show their worth in history, but then there are ones who don't have that many known details of their lives that can make for a good battle like the captain of the Titanic or the guy who made the polio vaccine, and likewise that can be said for fictional characters like a niche anime protagonist or a trendy game that's not heard of by the general public
-Being so similar that there's no contrast or only doing contrast for the sake of them not being similar
When people are asking for something like Clara Barton vs Florence Nightingale where both are nurses working in overlapping fields or Chris Rock vs Kevin Hart just from them having similar styles of comedy and attitudes, the battle wouldn't seem that interesting from the lack of contrasting personalities between them or how they basically do the same types of things so that comparing them doesn't really lead to any good jokes being said about what they do without sounding hypocritical, and it's that kind of stuff that makes it obvious for why ERB didn't go with Jackie Chan against Bruce Lee or Freud against another psychologist and instead had someone more contrasting for both
On the other hand, you have suggestions that are just purposely trying to be completely different people or even one-sided just for the sake of it, like Captain America vs Homelander just because of their contrasting morals.... except that sounds like a battle set up entirely to make Homelander the loser from the start, so why not someone more closely matched to both of them? It's like saying how instead of Kurt Cobain vs a musician who's actually on his level of artistry, he should go against someone very cheerful and full of life just because CONTRAST, but I think ERB's best battles come from a popularly requested yet fitting matchup or something that fits just right like it was a Goldilocks situation where they have enough to fight about from their differences + similarities
For all these points, you can basically see how just about most of the matchups ERB made, especially after season 1, made sense to do as an idea and just about all the best ERBs follow these types of guidelines without trying to be random or different for the sake of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ERB/comments/17zbm0q/why_every_erb_matchup_was_picked_explained/
r/ERB • u/Captain_Blackjack0 • 4h ago
News Cyancoat has also made a statement against Freshy Kanal
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r/ERB • u/YeetusDeletus9001 • 6h ago
Tierlist Scientifically prove this rapper won, DAY 113: Stanley Kubrick
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Last time, u/epicguyfrominternet said that Tarantino won for having the most proper disses. Today, we're focusing on Stanley Kubrick.
Current standings: https://tiermaker.com/list/random/erb-rappers-15891919/6575986
If you need a refresher on the rules, refer to Day 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ERB/comments/1tadege/scientifically_prove_this_rapper_won_day_1_john/
Also, if you disagree so strongly with the notion of a given rapper winning that you refuse to come up with a justification for it, there is no need to comment saying so. Nobody said you had to engage with these posts at all.
Community Suggestion Due to Freshy Kanal being revealed/alleged as a shitty person, this will be my final Freshy Kanal cover art
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r/ERB • u/YaBoiJimboMcDonalds • 1h ago
Suggestion Louis Pasteur vs Jonas Salk (ft. Edward Jenner)
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r/ERB • u/MaybeClassic6670 • 10h ago
Suggestion Marie Antoinette vs Imelda Marcos (ft. Louis XVI and Ferdinand Marcos)
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r/ERB • u/YaBoiJimboMcDonalds • 1h ago
Suggestion George B. McClellan vs Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
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Civil War Generals who possessed massive savior complexes leading to radical conservatism
Suggestion Naruto vs Sonic
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Connections: Goku-inspired, happy go lucky protagonists known for their headfirst, foolhardy battle styles and love for freedom who have relations to the wind element, golden forms, beast forms, signature attacks involves rolling balls, and their valued relationships/friendships that they value with an ensemble cast of memorable characters, such as pink love interests (Sakura and Amy) and edgy loners with tragic backstories involving losing someone they loved (Sasuke and Shadow).
r/ERB • u/Ok-Pirate7745 • 15h ago
Discussion Rating Lines and Verses: Henry Ford vs Karl Marx
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I felt bored enough to do this. This is a balance of my opinion and the consensus in both Reddit and Youtube
Rating system:
BRUTAL! (No BS/Straightforward haymaker done on high impact)
Amazing! (Impactful)
Great
Good
Okay...
Bad
Null (Complete verse/momentum letdown)
HENRY FORD VS KARL MARX
(HF, Verse 1)
Mister Motor City meets the menace in red
My lines are a production; your lines are bread!-(Great-Amazing!)
Disassembling timepieces is how I got my start
Now, watch me tear your ideology apart-(Great!)
You scream, "Unite the workers! Free the class slaves!"
"...Lose your chains, trade 'em in for mass graves!"-(Amazing!)
Mao and Stalin: wow! Appalling mounds of body bags
When a world leader likes you, that's a red flag!-(Amazing!)
I produce with my two hands, you're a destitute tramp
Scheming to trade bootstraps in for food stamps-(Great-Amazing!)
Any Prussian trying to seize my private property
will catch a torque wrench to his private parts properly!-(Great-Amazing!)
Who takes advice from a broke slob? It's laughable!
I wouldn't wipe my tailpipe with your Das Krapital-(Great-Amazing!)
If you'd saved a penny for each daughter you named Jenny,
you might notta needed to bury quite so many-(BRUTAL!)
Verse Rating: Amazing! (Amazing Consistency!)
(KM, Verse 1)
Who's that proud Young Hegelian heavy-drinkin' card-carrying,
future thinkin' Lincoln letter inkin' proletarian?-(Great-Amazing Intro!)(Amazing Flow!)
It's Karl Marx, prepare to be rhyme-stomped!
I'm droppin' you like Hitler dropped your name in Mein Kampf-(Amazing!)
My concepts didn't cause mass graves; greed did!
You'd get that from books, but you didn't read shit-(Great!)
Your "self-made man" story's dung from a Taurus
Your daddy's two hands gave you a free farm and a forest-(Great!)(Great-Amazing Rebuttal!)
You were the first of six kids 'till the seventh killed your mother
Maybe that's why you spied on your workers like Big Brother-(Great-Amazing!)
Your Model T-total lack of style is killing me
We can't take shit from you according to ability!-(Great!)
Do what your first car can't and backup
Beating me is like your city in Brazil: nuts!-(Good!)
Verse Rating: Great-Amazing!
(HF, Verse 2)
Whew! don't step that close without some beard shampoo, son
You lived in Cologne—looked like you coulda used some-(Great-Amazing!)
I drip with style like a dipstick drips oil
You look as sick as your chronic dick boils!-(Amazing!)
I'm mass-producing abuse on a utopian hobo!
I'm throwing you for loops like the F in my logo!-(Great!)
I gave men work, you brought nothing but harm
Take your bourgeois pig shit back to Animal Farm-(Great!)
Verse Rating: Great-Amazing
(KM, Verse 2)
Yeesh! your factory conditions were bleak
Crammed with machines, cranking out four severed fingers a week-(Great-Amazing!)
You controlled what employees could think, drink and eat!
And when they marched for better wages: shot them dead in the street-(Amazing!)
In truth, what you produced was alienated working men!
Who would clock into Detroit and lose themselves like Eminem!-(Amazing-Brutal!)
And now your Great Lakes State ain't exactly a great sight (Uh!)
You were worse for Michigan than Flint's water pipes-(Amazing!)
Verse Rating: Amazing!
(HF, Verse 3)
Uh! Your gripes about oppression don't leave me impressed
You're not hot, Karl; that's just shit on your chest-(Good!)
For a man who's stateless, you got an awful lot to say
I'll pay you five dollars a day to go away!-(Good-Great!)
Your buddy Engels bankrolled you with his textile mills
I guess the capitalists are cool when they're paying your bills-(Great-Amazing!)
You're a hypocrite, a nitwitted schlub with substance issues
Step off your soapbox, take the soap with you-(Great!)
Verse Rating: Great!
(KM, Verse 3)
Look, dummy, sharing money is the communist vision
Engels' bank was the crank that got the revolution spinning-(Good!)
We gave everything to see the common people advance
I'm so down with the cause, I even pawned my own pants!-(Great!)
You grew so out of touch, you sabotaged your only kid
Edsel's stomach cancer showed more love than you did-(BRUTAL!)
So congrats, your legacy's in ashes!
Remembered as the fascist sympathizing cause of climate change and car crashes!-(Amazing-Brutal!)
From your newspaper to your Nazi factory 'cross the pond
Frankly Hank it's clear Auschwitz side you were on!-(BRUTAL!)
This battle's been a blowout like that hemorrhage in your head
I'll leave a Ford as expected: Found On Road Dead-(Amazing Ending!)
Verse Rating: BRUTAL!
Karl Marx sweeped with his third verse; no mercy
r/ERB • u/InterestingRatio8218 • 1d ago
Survey Miyamoto vs Miyazaki is the ninth battle! What should be the tenth battle of the community voted ERB season!
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r/ERB • u/Redimentio • 1d ago
Meme Miyamoto vs Miyazaki... wait, what do you mean these are the wrong ones?
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r/ERB • u/YeetusDeletus9001 • 1d ago
Tierlist Scientifically prove this rapper won, DAY 112: Quentin Tarantino
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Last time, u/epicguyfrominternet said that Hitchcock won for having "cock" in his name. Today, we're focusing on Quentin Tarantino.
Current standings: https://tiermaker.com/list/random/erb-rappers-15891919/6573167
If you need a refresher on the rules, refer to Day 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ERB/comments/1tadege/scientifically_prove_this_rapper_won_day_1_john/
Also, if you disagree so strongly with the notion of a given rapper winning that you refuse to come up with a justification for it, there is no need to comment saying so. Nobody said you had to engage with these posts at all.
r/ERB • u/TeamNo2349 • 1d ago
Community Suggestion Rap Battle Suggestions - Part 4
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Erik vs. Captain Nemo (The Phantom of the Opera vs Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
Killua Zoldyck vs. Kimmy Schmidt (Hunter X Hunter vs Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Dr. Moreau vs. Tom Nook (The Island of Dr. Moreau vs Animal Crossing)
The Silver Surfer vs. Uncle Iroh (Marvel vs Avatar: The Last Airbender)
