further to profile pics, I have noticed this strange blanking out of my profile pic when shown on posts, but not when on the Member profile, it appears for a couple of different profiles / accounts seems to be when the picture is manually uploaded and not part of the account's fb login standard profile (2 x instances) and unexplainable in 1 x instance where it is an email login account.
The following example is an email login:

versus the member profile page:

I have re-uploaded the profile pic multiple times and am certain that this obstruction does not appear in the source image itself. As I said it happens to a number of other manually uploaded profile pics