Kim Kardashian Seemingly Bans Snake Emoji From Instagram Amid Taylor Swift Feud

Amid an ongoing feud with Taylor Swift and ahead of the release of the singer’s new music, Kim Kardashian appeared this week to be taking steps to prevent Swift’s fan base from flooding her Instagram with the snake emoji.

BuzzFeed noted Wednesday that the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star appeared to have banned the emoji from appearing in comments on her photos. The discovery was made after Swift, 27, announced she would be dropping a new album titled “Reputation.”

The announcement was made on the singer’s own Instagram this week after she previously deleted all of her content from the social media platform. Swift returned Wednesday with album art as well as single and album release dates. But fans took notice of a series of three images in particular: videos shared to her account that together depicted a coiling snake.

Kardashian has had her social media feeds flooded with the emoji by Swift fans who anticipate a lyrical come back from the musician. The 36-year-old reality star seemingly got the last word in the ongoing feud — which followed a previous years-long saga of ups and downs between Swift and Kardashian’s rapper husband, Kanye West — after she released a series of Snapchats that seemingly disproved former claims made by Swift.

The singer had up until that point maintained that she did not give her approval on West’s mention of her in his controversial The Life of Pablo track “Famous,” in which he called her a “b—h” as well as claimed to have helped Swift in her ascent to mainstream popularity.

The recorded call of Taylor _ Swift approving the Kanye Famous line pic.twitter.com/3s15uvCqr4

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“Wait it's legit National Snake Day?!?!?They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days!” she wrote on Twitter July 17, 2016. At the time, Swift’s own social media feeds were flooded with the same emoji that’s currently plaguing Kardashian’s comment sections — except on Instagram.

As BuzzFeed noted, users will be able to see the snake emoji when they themselves post it to an Instagram on Kardashian’s account. However, the user is likely the only one who will, as BuzzFeed noticed that the emoji disappears once the user logs out of his or her account and attempts to find it among other comments.

“Instagram actually allows any user to block certain phrases in their comments — including emojis,” BuzzFeed reported. “This applies to all users, not just verified or high-profile accounts.”

An Instagram spokesperson told the site that it gives users “the choice to make their own lists of banned words or emojis that won’t appear in their comments.”

Taylor Swift responded to last year’s controversy and Kardashian’s Snapchat leak of a call between herself and West about “Famous” by calling it “character assassination.”

“Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination,” she said in a statement last year. “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”

She was anticipated to drop her new single Thursday.