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Today is Yoshihiro Tanbara ArchivesWorld Emoji Day, an unofficial (see also: made up) holiday designed to celebrate emoji and it's impact on the world (🙄 🙃 🤔 ).

And while people all over the globe are joining in the festivities — Apple just released new emoji, the Empire State Building will blaze yellow, etc. —  there's only one real way to honor World Emoji Day: Stop literally everything you are doing this moment and stare in awe at Cher's truly next level emoji game.

For the uninitiated, Cher is a pop icon who also happens to be the Queen of Twitter. There is not a single social justice issue that Cher has notadvocated for on the microblogging platform. She tweets about Trump, she tweets about the environment, she tweets about her own life.

And she does it all with emoji.

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Cher understands better than anyone else that using emoji is just how we communicate in the modern era. As she has so astutely pointed out, "emoji bring life to words."

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And that's exactly what she does — Cher uses emoji to communicate quickly and effectively. And she does it better than the rest of the internet.

It's truly a modern-day miracle. It's like how Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish, except now it's Cher transforming 140 characters into entire essays.

Case in point, this Cher tweet about healthcare:

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There are multiple movements to that tweet. In a single tweet, Cher managed to call out Republicans, stand up for the personhood of women and children, and decry greed in politics.

That's a whole grad school-level political science dissertation. Jake Tapper wouldn't be able to cram more political analysis in a whole hour of The Leadif he tried.

And Cher did it all in 140 characters because of her A+ emoji skills.

Not only is Cher an avid emoji user, she is expanding the boundaries of how you use emoji and what they can communicate. Seriously, Cher is literally defining new ways for us to use emoji, like the time she opened "emoji school":

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And never forget about the time Cher used emoji to lead a mass group therapy session on the internet.

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As they say: YOUR FAVE COULD NEVER.

But here's the kicker: Cher is 71 years old! She's already done enough for the culture. She's given us "Believe." She's given us "I got you babe." She's given us the truly iconic and vastly under-appreciated cinematic masterpiece Burlesque. She doesn't have to be out here blessing us with her emoji wisdom.

But nope. Cher was like, "Oh, the youths are using these tiny little pictures to talk. Let me show the girls how it's done."

In other words: Boss. Status.

Cher's emoji skills are so 🔥 🔥 🔥 that she was literally nominated for an award for them:

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She is emoji's biggest advocate:

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And she has NO time for anyone who can't understand how to use them:

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Nobody gets more bang for their emoji buck than Cher does. So if there is one thing you do today on World Emoji Day, make sure its saying thank you to Cher.