MSN just randomly got rid of all my previous profile pictures and won't let me set a new one

[OhHelloThereImTheGuy]

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My display images and emoticons are gone! What happened?

I said it was most likely an update that just slipped under our noses, but now I’m aware it isn’t. Also the reason it doesn’t work on 8.x but works fine on versions below it is because of a dumb server bug that was introduced in the live server running on m1.escargot.log1p.xyz - the profile message that is sent by the server after successful login that Messenger needs is only sent to clients using MSNP12 and below (so around 7.5 and below) and protocol versions after (around 8.0+) don’t get it.…