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Twenty entertainers, one running list of Taylor Swift feuds — and by October 2016, the receipts kept piling up.

TheThings Celebrity’s rundown, “20 Celebs Who Aren’t Friends With Taylor Swift,” lands at a moment when Swift’s carefully built girl-next-door image has taken real hits. The video traces the flashpoints — Kanye West’s stage-crashing at the VMAs, the Kim Kardashian Snapchat drop, the Katy Perry dancer drama, and a fresh Calvin Harris Twitter blowup — that turned a country-pop sweetheart into a lightning rod. Some of these are old grudges; others, like the “Famous” fallout, are barely months old.

• Kanye West’s 2009 VMA interruption of Swift’s Best Female Video win reignited in 2016 when his song “Famous” featured the line “I made that bitch famous,” prompting Kim Kardashian to release Snapchat audio of the two discussing the lyric in July 2016.
• Katy Perry’s feud with Swift, widely tied to backup dancers leaving the Red Tour for Perry’s Prismatic World Tour, spilled into a 2015 Twitter spat over Nicki Minaj’s VMA snub complaints, with Perry mocking Swift for “capitalizing on the take down of a woman.”
• Calvin Harris publicly accused Swift’s camp in July 2016 of trying to bury him after their breakup, once her ghostwriting credit on “This Is What You Came For” surfaced.

The Kanye Fight That Never Really Ended

Nothing on this list runs longer than the Kanye West saga. It started at the 2009 VMAs when West grabbed the mic mid-speech to declare that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos of all time” — a moment that’s followed Swift for seven years. It resurfaced hard in 2016 when West released “Famous” with its “I made that bitch famous” line. Swift condemned it during her Grammy acceptance speech, insisting she never approved the lyric.

Kim Kardashian didn’t let that stand. In July 2016 she posted Snapchat recordings of a phone call between West and Swift in which the two discuss the track before its release. The clips triggered an immediate pile-on, with fans and critics branding Swift a “snake” for what looked like a denial that didn’t match the recorded conversation — a nickname that stuck through the rest of 2016.

I made that bitch famous.

Katy Perry’s Dancers, Bad Blood, and the Minaj Spat

The Perry rivalry predates “Famous” by years. Reports at the time pointed to backup dancers who left Swift’s Red Tour to join Perry’s Prismatic World Tour, a defection widely credited as the real-world inspiration for Swift’s 2014 single “Bad Blood.” Neither camp ever fully confirmed the story, but it stuck.

The feud got a public airing in July 2015, when Nicki Minaj called out the MTV VMAs for overlooking her “Anaconda” video in the major nominations. Swift briefly waded into the resulting Twitter exchange, which gave Perry an opening to mock her for lecturing other women about tearing each other down while, in Perry’s view, doing exactly that herself. The list of celebs who’ve cycled through friend-to-foe status with Swift over the years is long enough that it’s earned its own rundown elsewhere, similar to the pattern covered in celebs who started out friends and ended up enemies.

Demi Lovato, Diplo, and the Squad Backlash

Not every critic came from a rival pop star’s camp. Demi Lovato used a Glamour interview to knock Swift’s exclusive “girl squad,” arguing it projected an unrealistic, overly polished image of friendship and dismissing “Bad Blood” as a hollow stand-in for real women’s empowerment.

Producer Diplo, meanwhile, drew the wrath of Swift’s fanbase after joking around with a Kickstarter campaign to buy her “a booty.” The backlash from her fans was fierce enough that Diplo later compared their online defense force to an army “worse than North Korea” — a line that outlived the original joke by a long shot. Feuds like Perry’s have followed her closely enough to warrant their own retrospective, in the same vein as people Katy Perry treated like trash.

Calvin Harris Breaks His Silence

The most recent addition to the list came from ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris. In July 2016, Harris took to Twitter to accuse Swift’s team of trying to publicly bury him following their breakup, timing his complaint to the reveal that Swift had co-written “This Is What You Came For” under a pseudonym — a credit she hadn’t publicized while the two were dating. It was a rare case of a Swift ex airing grievances in real time rather than years later, and it landed while the Kanye and Kardashian mess was still dominating headlines.

Between “Famous,” the Snapchat drop, and Harris’s Twitter thread, Swift spent the summer of 2016 fielding more open criticism at once than at any other point in her career — and the video’s back half is basically a scoreboard of who piled on while it was happening.