Fans of One Direction and Harry Styles were livid with Taylor Swift after she was seen apparently mouthing “shut the fu** up” about her ex-boyfriend to pal Selena Gomez while One Direction were on stage at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Swift also took a shot at Harry while accepting the award for Best Female Video for her song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’, which she confirmed earlier this year was about Styles. “I also want thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because now I got one of these!” Swift told the audience while holding up her Moonman.

On Twitter, dozens of 1D fans made disturbing death threats towards Taylor, and hundreds more told the singer in vulgar terms she was too promiscuous for their tastes, having dated several musicians only to write unflattering songs later about their failed relationships.

Among the attacks:

ana carre (@anamariiacarre): You’re like a 6 year old. Slut @taylorswift13

Mary Elizabeth (@_homeslice): Hey @taylorswift13, fu** you! It’s not Harry’s fault you’re a slut & can’t keep a real man around

Valeria (@Valeria5SOS_): @taylorswift13 your such a slut get over it and move the fu** on

Kimberlee Maniscalco (@Kmaniscalco_19): @taylorswift13 you don’t realize that being immature as fu** is making you lose so many fans. Boys don’t like you get over it. Slut

Sinthya (@Sinthya_1D): @taylorswift13 you are a fu**ing Slut you have like 2,000 boyfriends each month and her fans what are you gonna do write a song about me :)

Ashley Robinson (@ashleyrobo96): Fu** off @taylorswift13 you immature little whore it’s funny cause he still clapped when you won you slut pic.twitter.com/PxjrDjl2nZ

Iris Ortiz (@IrisMahone_1D): @taylorswift13 Taylor its not our fault you can’t have a successful relationship. It’s your fault retarded slut. Disrespectful hoe.

ILoveTheBoys (@fuzzyhead714): You dumb whore your stupid! All you do is sing about your break ups you can’t keep any man dumb slut @taylorswift13 @Harry_Styles

Ally Styles (@MolinaAlly): @taylorswift13 I hate you. You are a fugly slut back off of Harry and you STFU don’t say that shiz to him

Ciera Cudney (@Ciera_Loves_You): @taylorswift13 Sleep with one eye open. I may just kill you tonight. Is it ok if I stab you in your sleep?

Angel (@AgelinaaPaulina): If I were harry I’ll slap your face, kick you punch you and maybe “kill” you :) #TaylorShutTheFu**Up @Taylorswift13

Jamie Vanhise (@JamieVanhise): @taylorswift13 I’m gonna kill you while your sleeping

1/5 PLEASE?! (@sowastyles): @taylorswift13 listen bitch get over your crush on Harry and stop being so BITCH and if you said anything about haz I swear to god I’ll kill you

alyssa oleson (@Lyssie_horan): I’m not saying I’d kill @taylorswift13 but if I had 2 bullets a gun and was in a room with her, a serial killer and Osama I’d shoot her twice

GENREAL TOES (@h_a_n_n_e_r): @taylorswift13 WHO THE FU** DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HARRY LIKE THAT I WILL FU**ING KILL YOU STUPID FU**ING PIG

Isabella Yeager (@ciaoisabella401): @taylorswift13 @Harry_Styles I’M GONNA FRICKING KILL U BITCH HARRY CAN I KILL HER FOR YOU LET ME KICK THE BITCHES ASS

Saylor Doucet (@SaylorDoucet): @taylorswift13 I’M GOING TO KILL YOU WITH THAT LITTLE PIECE OF METAL YOU PIECE OF SH** STOP BRINGING UP HARRY HES TOO GOOD FOR YOU ANYWAY

AnaBilé (@ana_bile): @taylorswift13 I’m going to kill you BITCH DIE

Shelby Allen (@LMBOshelby): I WILL GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND I’LL KILL YOU @taylorswift13

LiamPayne (@stalkerbitch911): I will go to prison if I can kill Taylor Swift @taylorswift13 please let me kill Taylor Swift come into my fu**ing city bitch I’ll kill you

rosy (@ARTICNOUlS): @taylorswift13 I WILL FIND U AND KILL YOU DON’T YOU DARE TO INDIRECT MY BABY AGAIN

Cawtney (@CeetheDON): THAT BITCH OS TALKING ABOUT HARRY. I will fu**ing kill her . Don’t play with me you fu**ing slut @taylorswift13

LIAM WE LOVE YOU (@sallyhoran1D): OK TAYLOR SAID SHUT THE FU** UP WHILE THE BOYS WERE TALKING IMMA KILL THAT BITCH GO DIE IN A FU**ING HOLE @taylorswift13

Samantha (@samanthaschnick): @taylorswift13 don’t tell one direction to shut the fu** up I will find you and kill you bitch

Danaaa (@danayeoshoua1D): I’m seriously gonna kill this motherfu**ing bitch! @taylorswift13 this is why nobody loves you slut

Paige (@paige_walther): Taylor mouthed ‘shut the fu** up’ when they were talking @taylorswift13 I will find you and I will kill you

LIAM PLEASE BABY (@Niall5SOSx): @taylorswift13 TAYLOR I WILL FU**ING MURDER YOU FU**ING BITCH TALK ABOUT HARRY ONE MORE TIME & SH** OOH

Mr. Zap (@betoike): @taylorswift13 you are so cute JUST LIKE A MOLE CHOKING ON A PIECE OF CORN PLEASE JUST FALL OFF OF A CLIFF CAUSE I’LL SHOOT YOU WHILE YOU FALL. IMMA HIT YOUR HEAD WITH A SHOVEL, THEN SHOOT YOU WITH A MACHINE GUN THEN GIVE YOU A SMALL KISS THEN JUST SET YOU ON FIRE WHORE

Joanna (@narryerotic): @taylorswift13 if you ever mouth to one direction again I will stab your boobs oh wait you don’t have boobs

infinity and beyond (@Foreverunique25): @taylorswift13 BITCH YOU SHUT THE FU** UP YOU FLAT CHESTED NO ASS HAVING TACKY ASS BITCH!! YOU TALENTLESS SLUT!!! FU** YOU YOU DUMB WHORE!!!

One Direction star Harry Styles tells Us that his past relationship with Taylor Swift is fair game for her to write about on her next album, something she’s already done with her breakup single ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’. “It would be hypocritical for me to say she couldn’t do it because everybody writes songs based on personal experience,” the British artist explained. “I can’t say I’d have dated someone less famous to avoid it.”

As for dating someone in the public eye like himself, the 19-year-old opined, “If you have a lot of people from outside telling you what it is and they don’t even know you, telling you what your relationship is, that’s weird. So I think you sort of have to block it out and just have the relationship rather than think - we’re having this relationship play out on magazine covers.”