# User uploaded avatars not displaying

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-uploaded-avatars-not-displaying/26386>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 16, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-uploaded-avatars-not-displaying/26386 "2015-03-16T11:18:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![lonehangman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@lonehangman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lonehangman)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-uploaded-avatars-not-displaying/26386/1 "2015-03-16T11:18:08Z")

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This happens on meta as well and could also happen on other discourse sites, but essentially if I try to upload a square avatar it won’t display it and default back to the letter. However, if I upload a non-square avatar it will display that (after saying that it needs to be cropped).  
This also happened to various users, so it isn’t just me.

I ruled out browser extensions and amazon already, so now I’m not quite sure what the issue could be.  
Ideas?

I was going to include a gfy/vid but it kept bugging up so I scrapped that idea 😐

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