Here are 10 examples of social media at its worst. From the serious to the silly, we all argued a little too much over these non-stories this year.

March 25: Zayn Malik vs. One Direction

On the afternoon of March 25, 2015, fangirls everywhere practically fainted when they found out about Malik’s departure from One Direction. Being a huge Directioner myself, naturally, I remember the time, place, and source that reported the split. The icing on the cake was walking into Algebra class to see a One Direction puzzle on the counter that had Zayn removed from it.

His absence was not the end of it. He and Louis Tomlinson had a childish argument via Twitter over Malik’s collaboration with music producer “Naughty Boy” (Shahid Khan). Khan tweeted a heavily filtered picture of him and Malik with the caption, “Replace this.” It was perceived as an attack against One Direction’s hole left by Malik. 

Tomlinson tweeted, “Remember when you were 12 and you used to think those Mac filters for your pictures were cool, haha ! Some people still do, HA!” It was assumed to be a response to Khan. By the time Khan responded, “@Louis_Tomlinson and some people can’t even sing.. but who’s complaining when there’s auto tune eh,” it was a full-fledged war.

One Direction’s new album Made in the A.M. without Z.M, is really good. I guess that’s the last laugh.

June 15: Rachel Dolezal vs. Rachel Dolezal

The world was shocked to find out that someone was claiming to be “transracial.” Rachel Dolezal’s parents revealed that the former NAACP President of the chapter in Spokane, Washington was lying about her heritage. Her supporters claimed that although she was not biologically of African descent, her behavior was a step in the right direction because she embraces African-American heritage. Her adversaries claim that being “transracial” is not real and that no one can change the race they’re born with. With the recent introduction and general acceptance of different gender identities, many are questioning whether they should support “transraciality.” Dolezal resigned office on June 15th.

June 17: Donald Trump vs. everyone

No one really knows what prompted Donald Trump to run for President of the United States. His attacks against any and all people that challenge him are preposterous to say the least.

During the first Republican debate, Fox News’s Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions. He retorted, saying, “She’s got blood coming out of…wherever.” Many perceived that as a reference to her menstrual cycle. Trump outright denied his remarks were meant in that way while continuing to hammer Kelly with rude tweets.

According to CNN, Trump also was, “…under fire for what many believe was his public lampooning of the physical appearance of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. Kovaleski has a chronic condition called arthrogryposis, which limits the movement of his arms.” During a speech on November 24th, Trump moved his arms about wildly while mentioning Kovaleski’s article criticizing Trump. Two days later, “Trump denied that he was making fun of Kovaleski’s disability, and said he didn’t know him.” However, Kovaleski said they were on a first-name basis. And this guy wants to be President?

July 7: Ariana Grande vs. donuts

Ariana Grande was at Wolfee Donuts in early July with backup dancer Ricky Alvarez and other friends. In the security tape, Grande and Alvarez seemed to be daring each other to lick the donuts sitting out on top of the counters. When a fresh tray of donuts was put on the counter, Ariana made the harsh remark, “What the f**k is that? I hate Americans. I hate America. That’s disgusting.” The media had an absolute field day. It seemed like every tabloid wanted to burn her career.

Grande tweeted, “need to clean up this mouth of mine & set a better example for my babes. i apologize and i love you. always learning,” along with a long letter of apology.

Currently, she has a #1 hit, “Focus,” and sold out shows.

July 20: Drake vs. Meek Mill

In late July, rapper Meek Mill was hating on Drake for not writing his own lyrics. It was hard to decipher some of the illegible tweets that narrated the Twitter beef. Mill tweeted, “Stop comparing drake to me too…. He don’t write his own raps.” He followed up with, “He ain’t even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album….. I don’t trick my fans! Lol. That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out!”

Producer Noah Shebib came to Drake’s defense with a string of Tweets, “I can’t count the hours that myself and drake have spent writing producing and recording music. Let’s just say… 5000 hours…I’ve spent maybe 30 min in a studio with Q. Nice enough guy, very talented…If your asking if he contributed to if you’re reading this… Yes, he did. You can also see that by reading the credits.” USA Today confirms, “All of this is completely valid. If you write raps for other rappers to perform and the record label cuts you checks for doing so, you’re not a ghostwriter– that’s a publishing deal. Like it or not, this is what the industry is now.”

Drake made the mature decision to not even bother with the drama. I think we can all learn a lesson from Drake in the sense that pointless Twitter arguments need to be ignored.

July 21: Taylor Swift vs. Nicki Minaj

It all began when Nicki Minaj got annoyed after not having a Best Music Video of the Year nomination at the VMA’s. Minaj tweeted, “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year.” It was perceived as an attack against Taylor Swift, as her video was nominated. Swift tweeted back, “I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.” Minaj then claimed she wasn’t talking about Taylor.

Way too many people weighed in when it was none of their business. After a huge surge of drama and a trending conversation on Twitter, it all quieted down. The first apology was made by Swift, “I thought I was being called out. I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke. I’m sorry, Nicki. @NICKIMINAJ.” Minaj soon accepted, “That means so much Taylor, thank you. @taylorswift13.”  The beef was squashed completely when they performed a duet together to open the VMA’s.

July 22: Taylor Swift vs. Katy Perry

Baby, now they’ve got bad blood. When it seemed like the Nicki vs. Taylor brawl couldn’t get any more chaotic, Katy Perry jumped in. Perry tweeted, “Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one immeasurably capitalizes on the take down of a woman.” Yikes! At first the general public couldn’t understand what on earth she was saying. After a few rereads of the tweet, they knew exactly who this was targeting. It appears that Perry was mainly angry about Swift’s song about Perry, “Bad Blood.” In The Washington Post, Swift says the song is about someone who “‘…basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour.’ That’s an easy hint — some of Swift’s back-up dancers abruptly left her ‘Red’ tour for Perry’s ‘Prism’ tour last summer.”

Something tells me this feud will not clear up anytime soon. After Swift and Minaj resolved their issues, Perry slunk back into the darkness without trying to get any closure with Swift.

August 30: Miley Cyrus vs. Nicki Minaj

We all know the infamous line “Miley, what’s good?” Nicki Minaj blasted this line at Miley Cyrus in the middle of her acceptance speech. In The New York Times, Minaj explains she said it because “‘I saw [Cyrus] just looking at me, with her face screwed up, and I thought, What the!” She has long had a problem with Miley because of her “erasure of black women.” Minaj continues with, “If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us.”

There was speculation that the jab was staged by MTV. Either way, it was very entertaining to watch.

After the event, Cyrus’s Instagram filled up with comments that said, “Miley, what’s good?”

November 8: Starbucks red cups vs. Christianity

In what appears to be an attempt to dodge political incorrectness claims before they arrived, Starbucks found themselves in another sticky situation. By removing designs that could be considered exclusionary of religions that were not Christian, Starbucks managed to offend Christians. Sometimes you just can’t win. Some even went as far to call it “A war on Christmas.”

Joshua Feuerstein tweeted, “Starbucks removed Christmas from their cups because they hate Jesus.” He even asked his followers to ask baristas to write “Merry Christmas” on their cups and tweet a picture hashtagging “#MerryChristmasStarbucks.”

According to CNBC, Starbucks Vice President Jeffrey Fields said of the cups, “‘In the past, we have told stories with our holiday cups designs. This year we wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories.'”

November 29: Sam Pepper vs. sane people everywhere

YouTuber Sam Pepper has earned an overall disgusted rating from most of us. After getting a few minutes into his new idea of a “prank” video, I couldn’t watch anymore. I had to revert to Independent News for a rundown. “In the video, a kidnapping is staged which results in a man (Pepper) wearing a balaclava pointing a gun at [Vine star] Colby [Brock]’s head. The ‘gunman’ shoots at Colby who falls to the floor while a visibly traumatized Sam [Golbach], who is tied to a chair, starts screaming. The clip ends with Colby getting up and trying to comfort a seemingly shaken Sam, who apparently is his ‘best friend of five years.’” Brock, Golbach’s best friend, was in on the prank. If I were Golbach, Brock would no longer be my best friend.

Kaylee-Jade Davis even started a petition on Change.org to have Pepper’s YouTube account deactivated. Davis writes in the description of the petition,”In light of Sam Pepper’s most recent video…we propose that Pepper’s channel be removed. He clearly doesn’t understand boundaries.” The petition currently has 215,567 signatures.