It's the Kardashian-West Christmas portrait and they'll smile if they want to

Have yourself a blurry little Christmas.
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Jerico Mandybur
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The Kardashians may have refrained from blessing us with their annual Kristmas Kard in 2016, but fear not: The Kardashian-Wests have done one better.

A blurry family portrait to rival the '60s Addams Family: That's what Kanye West has given fans and frenemies for the holidays, albeit three days after Christmas.

And honestly? Iconic.

Presumably taken on an old Polaroid-style camera during Kris Jenner's yearly and ridiculously lavish holiday party, the image seems to carry a number of messages under its cool, literal exterior.

Including:

It's the holidays and we're goddamn tired. And 2016 is the worst.

We're posing as a happy family, but really we're quite sad.

This is going to be the perfect response to those divorce rumours.

Family photos are a stupid tradition and we are here to subvert them.

Thinking of dying my hair yellow and pink like the rainbow Paddle Pop, wyd?

Fun fact: West originally posted the photo to Twitter two hours earlier, but that version was even blurrier than the current version. So he took it down, replacing it with a slightly less blurry one.

Although the image proves Kanye West's presence at the night's festivities, according to Vanity Fair, something else was noticeably absent. *dun dun dun*

Kim's wedding ring. Maybe she got it re-fashioned into a fetching lip-ring? She's definitely sporting one of those.

Mystery aside, we know one thing for sure: 2016 has been a tumultuous year for the Kardashian-Wests, and if they want to boycott smiling in a blurry holiday photo, that's just fine.

In the eternal words of Kim Kardashian West herself -- "Can I live?"

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Jerico Mandybur

Jerico Mandybur is the editor of Mashable Australia. Previously, she worked as a digital editor at SBS, Oyster Mag, MTV and ASOS. Tweet her at @jerico_m.

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