2013, Erin McAuliffe, "Lorde's 'Pure Heroine'", The Observer (University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College), Volume 47, Issue 26, 1 October 2013, page 8:
When she rose to the throne of the iTunes charts with her single “Royals”, she was met with some hateful tweets from Smilers (aka Miley Cyrus fans).
2013, Lauren Lopez, "She Came In Like a Wrecking Ball", Thunderbird (Half Hollow Hills High School East), Issue 1, Fall 2013, page 12:
Now this isn't to say that Miley's Smilers didn't watch “Wrecking Ball”, because they probably did.
The singer, who missed Jingle Ball because of bad weather in the Big Apple, invited thousands of Smilers — the not-so-clever nickname given to her adoring acolytes — to attend the afternoon soundcheck before her sold-out show at TD Garden.