Ms. Cyrus (Photo: Wikipedia.org)

Miley Cyrus had a brush with social advocacy last year when she recorded Occupy Wall Street's unofficial theme song, "Liberty Walk."  But since then, she's remained pretty quiet on any issues of equality. In 2012, she's cut her hair several times, most notably when she got rid of her bun, which put popular fan account @Mileys_Bun in an awkward position.

But now Ms. Cyrus is back to the fight with a new issue. Yes, Ms. Cyrus has something that all Americans can get behind -- Emoji equality.

For the uninformed, Emojis are the cute little image characters that iPhone users use like secret code or special embellishes to text messages. And on Tuesday afternoon, the beauty chain Sephora asked its Twitter followers to retweet their message if they wanted more colors for the nail painting Emoji. For the record, there is currently only a pink nail polishing Emoji.

Ms. Cyrus quickly responded with Emoji concerns of her very own:

This woman is right! There is injustice in the Emoji world right now.

This might just be Ms. Cyrus atoning for her past racially insensitive sins, but we're rooting for her cause. After all, it's kind of annoying to have to represent your female Indian friend with some dude rocking a turban.

(Photo: MetroWeekly)

In recent years emojis have transitioned from an SMS-based shorthand primarily used in Japan to text decoration employed by everyone from iPhone-obsessed tweens to twenty-somethings still on their parents' family plan. Emojis officially appeared on the iPhone 3Gs back in 2009, and have since experienced numerous updates, with the newest version finally incorporating a pizza icon into its visual repertoire.

New York Mag interviewed Willem Van Lancker, a former intern at Apple who designed 400 of the original 500 emojis. But as it turns out--despite the tyrannical rise of geeks--"I created emojis" isn't as foolproof a pickup line as you might imagine.

Mr. Van Lancker's girlfriend was a big fan of emojis before she even met him, and as such she's "definitely better at crafting creative narratives." When he finally told her that he created the majority of the characters, she was impressed--but not that impressed. "When I told her, she was floored that I had made all of them," he said. "But it didn't help me get a date with her, at first."

If Mr. Van Lancker's experience is any indication, we wouldn't recommend bragging about your emoji proclivities on a first date any time soon.

(h/t Maureen O'Connor)

Who dare call these lil cuties ugly? (Photo: I am Cal)

In a feud that will surely go down in the annals of Internet history, the so-called father of emoticons, professor Scott Fahlman, has decided to take issue with the emoticon's livelier cousin, the emoji. And on the 30th birthday of the emoticon, no less.

Professor Fahlman is widely credited with creating the modern day smiley face emoticon. "I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)", he wrote in a 1982 email, solidifying his place in history for pounding out a few symbols on a keyboard one day. We should all be so lucky.

But now, all that fame and glory seems to have finally gone to his head.

"I think they are ugly," Professor Fahlman recently told The Independent regarding emojis, those multicolored icons that tweens now use in lieu of actual words. "They ruin the challenge of trying to come up with a clever way to express emotions using standard keyboard characters."

Hey Professor Fahlman, how's this for a clever way to express emotions using a keyboard?

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Though, before we get ahead of ourselves, Professor Fahlman did acknowledge his bias: "But perhaps that's just because I invented the other kind," he admitted.

Ugh. Fine.

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