By Amy Croffey
Kardashian West & Ors v Swift & Ors
Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West and Taylor Swift had a celebrity feud so colossal in 2016, they made Vladimir Putin look like a pussycat.
No stranger to celebrity mortal combat, Swift, 27, has taken on the likes of Katy Perry, Harry Styles and Calvin Harris in the past but she has met her match in reality TV queen Kardashian West, 35, and her plethora of siblings, who united on social media to show the singer that no one messes with America's unofficial first family, not even America's (former) sweetheart.
It all started when prime instigator Kardashian West set social media on fire one July evening by revealing her greatest home video to date – a possibly illegally taped conversation conversation between West, 39, and Swift that appears to show they discussed, and Swift partially approved, the now infamous line in his song Famous: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex... I made that bitch famous."
In a drama worthy of a courtroom, the video appears to show Swift was dishonest about her initial claims that she did not give West consent for the lyric.
In happier times: Kim Kardashian West, husband Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the 2015 Grammy Awards.Credit: Getty Images
Not satisfied with dismantling Swift's public image, Kardashian West, decided to keep on trolling the Shake It Off singer, along with three of her adult sisters - Kourtney Kardashian, 37, Khloe Kardashian, 32, and (Swift's former friend) Kendall Jenner, 21. Their youngest sibling, Kylie Jenner, 19, had the sense to sit this one out, instead using the media scrutiny on the family to promote her lip range, like the good little capitalist that Kris Jenner, 61, has reared.
The siblings had their fun online, acting like mean girls trying to drum up more publicity, Swift responded with a lengthy message on Twitter: "That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the internet."
The hashtag "Kim Exposed Taylor Party" started to trend worldwide on Twitter and Swift was inundated with snake emojis.
While Team Kardashian-West had ammunition on their side, Team Swift was not going down without a fight.
(L-R) Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian West, and Kylie Jenner.Credit: Kevin Mazur
Swift's squad of besties, namely singer Selena Gomez, 24, actor Chloe Moretz, 19, and Australian actor Ruby Rose, 30, jumped on social media to support their leader (and definitely not because it was the biggest story of the day and it would send some publicity their way).
Anti-Kardashian krusader Moretz called for everyone to take the high road because the drama was "petulant and unimportant". Without naming them directly, she also called for Kardashian West and her husband to take their heads out of their "a holes".
Taylor Swift and ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris.Credit: AP
Khloe took the teenager's comments personally and decided to seek retribution by posting an explicit picture of Moretz on her Twitter account for her 22.7 million followers to see – an act so low it was described as revenge porn.
Moretz has denied that the picture, which shows a woman in a bikini photographed at an unfortunate angle, is of her.
Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian.Credit: Greg Doherty
Swift v Harris
But the soap opera that was 2016 did not end there for the 1989 star.
Around five weeks after they split, her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris, 28, hit out at the singer in a series of bruising tweets, even daring to bring up her arch-nemesis, Katy Perry.
In the most unlikely feud of the century, angry American rapper Azealia Banks had a hotel stoush with angry Australian actor Russell Crowe.Credit: Getty
At a time when Swift was liaising with actor Tom Hiddleston, 35, her management team decided to confirm that she co-wrote one of Harris' songs This Is What You Came For, which also featured 28-year-old Rihanna, using the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg.
Harris reacted on social media by re-tweeting a link to a story with the headline "Taylor Swift wrote Calvin Harris and Rihanna's hit This Is What You Came For, rep confirms".
Khloe Kardashian refused to remove this explicit picture of Chloe Moretz. Moretz claims the picture is not of her.Credit: Khloe Kardashian/Twitter
"And she sings on a little bit of it too," Harris added. "Amazing lyric writer and she smashed it as usual."
"I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and cut the vocals though," he said. "And initially [Taylor] wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym."
"Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though.
"I figure if you're happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do.
"I know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it," he added.
It was as if the Roar singer, a long-time enemy of Swift's, was lying in wait. Her response:
Swift has remained somewhat drama-free for the remainder of 2016 as her reps try to figure out what to do with her former American sweetheart image.
Chyna v Kardashian & Ors (AKA The Kardashians meet their match)
Kimye took a break from celebrity after she was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in October and he was hospitalised for exhaustion in November, but Blac Chyna entered Kris Jenner's carefully constructed midst, giving them all a run for their money.
This is an age-old feud that started when a then 16-year-old Kylie Jenner started dating Chyna's rapper ex, Tyga, also the father of her son King Cairo Stevenson, 4, around the same time as they were breaking up in August 2014.
Chyna got her own back by triumphantly announcing her engagement to Rob Kardashian almost two years later with an Instagram of a seven-carat diamond engagement ring worth $435,000. Rob, who has struggled with anxiety, depression and weight gain, did not tell his family about his plans to propose: they found out during a ski trip to Vail, Colorado. A month later she announced her pregnancy with a Chyna emoji.
To simplify the complicated saga, Kylie and Chyna made up and said they were actually friends the whole time. Chyna broke up, made up, broke up and made up with Rob too many times to count. She gave birth to a Kardashian heir, Dream, in November.
The Kardashian-Jenners seemed to have accepted Chyna but it was most recently revealed that Kim, Kourtney and Khloe, have launched legal action to stop their sister-in-law-to-be from trademarking their name.
Chyna then dumped Rob again mid-December after a turbulent weekend and a very public spat that played out across a number of social media platforms.
They are said to be "back together", but for how long?
Crowe v Banks
In the most unlikely feud of the century, angry American rapper Azealia Banks had a hotel stoush with angry Australian actor Russell Crowe.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Crowe would not be charged with forcibly removing Banks from his party because his actions were justified and carried out in order to protect his other guests, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
Witnesses told investigators that Banks, 25, was the "assaultive party", used a racial epithet and after making a throat-cutting threat Crowe, 52, "escorted" her out of his Beverly Hills Hotel suite, according to AAP.
The 212 singer claimed the New Zealand-born, Australian-raised actor called her a racial slur, choked her and spat at her during a gathering of about 10 people in Suite 117 at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, October 15, and filed a police report of battery over the incident.
Speaking to British tabloid The Sun, she called him a "racist, misogynist pig" and claimed the separated father-of-two flirted with her prior to their confrontation while he was drinking a mixture of "moonshine, whisky, vodka".
"Russell and I get next to each other. He's talking to me, I'm talking to him, and we start flirting. We're having a really good time. He's got his knee on my knee, he's touching my leg, I'm playing him my music, he tweets my song The Big Big Beat.
"He's like, 'I love this, you're beautiful, this is great'," she said.
Banks said things turned sour when she insulted a guest. Crowe told her she was inexperienced and Banks told him: "Your best days are behind you". A female guest defended Crowe and when Banks threatened to throw a glass at her, he intervened.
"He calls me a n-----, and then grabs me, picks me up, he chokes me by the throat, picks me up, throws me out of the room and then spits on me," Banks claimed.