The old default robot has https://assets.vrchat.com/system/defaultAvatar.png as image URL. The API for some reason serves treats non-/api/1/file/-URLs as such and the image URL becomes "https://assets.vrchat.com/system/defaultAvatar.png/256" (note the "/256" at the end) causing the image to not load with a 404.

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