Miley Cyrus sparks angry backlash online after posting picture to Twitter

Miley Cyrus is known for courting controversy with unique aplomb. Whether she's grinding against Robin Thicke in that now-iconic VMAs performance, or sending her husband, Liam Hemsworth, a very NSFW message for Valentine's Day, one thing's for sure: the internet's going to have something to say about it.

Case in point: Cyrus took to Twitter today to post an image of herself luxuriating in a pool, decked out in a number of gold and bedazzled chains. The post was not well received, however, with many people accusing the star of cultural appropriation.

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"Came thru drippin’ (drip drip)," Cyrus captioned the controversial snap.

The comments section was promptly filled with people calling the 26-year-old out for co-opting black culture. "Oh, hello. You rang? What can Blackness do for you today?" wrote one Twitter user, while another corroborated "Being a culture vulture so your music can sell."

"I’m annoyed, wear all the drip you want but don’t appropriate hair care items you don’t need [sic] might as well throw a durag on at this point," a third wrote after noticing a weave brush in the image.

This is not the first time that the erstwhile Disney star has been accused of being a culture vulture. In a 2017 interview with Billboard, Cyrus attempted to distance herself from the rap genre - something that she had previously embraced via twerking, using hip-hop hand gestures, and decking herself out in south-style jewellery.

Speaking about Kendrick Lamar's track, Humble, she asserted: "I love that because it’s not, ‘Come sit on my d*ck, suck on my c*ck. I can’t listen to that any more. That’s what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much 'Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my c*ck' – I am so not that."

C'mon, Miley.