WTF?! So apparently, staff decided to automatically make author portraits visible when posting from a side blog – this is pretty dangerous for people who run side blogs that can’t or should not be associated with their main blog – I think of the “fandomhatesxxx” blogs or xkit-extension (xkitguy) or a lot of trans folks blogs and the like.
So WTF?
You can remove it by going to the settings page for your side blog(s) and clicking the slider next to Blog Avatar – Show author portraits. It’s enable by default because staff actively hates its users.
Stay safe, all my trans siblings who need to keep a low profile.
My author portrait setting was defaulted to off, but just in case any one else comes across this problem.