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Did the avatars change recently?
For those of you wondering "why?", the best I can understand the various conversations on StackExchange Meta is:
Previously generated icons used some of users' personally identifying ...
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Where did my avatar go?! :(
I think this might be an issue with Gravatar and not Stack Exchange. I'll explain my reason for thinking this later in this answer.
First off, there is possibly a way to get your old gravatar back, ...
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Which is my identicon?
This will be fixed in the next builds.
You were experiencing a bug that affects Gravatar/Identicon users who have capital letters in their email address. Because we request icons of various sizes, ...
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Did the avatars change recently?
This was linked in the comments, but I feel it should be preserved in a more permanent form: Profile image changes (Gravatar images won’t be recoverable after email change) . The relevant quote is
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Hat Overlaps with Profile
Click on the hat here
Then you will get something like this
Now you can choose the position of the hat or change the hat.
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