I can confirm it happened to me for, at least, the past two updates--when they dropped.
But I'm not sure if it's now happening to me whenever the game starts up--but it definitely happened right after each of the past two updates ended up downloading. Always accompanied by a bugged out avatar creation screen.
Only fix I found, for myself, is to go to the community tab, then community avatars, click on the upload avatar to G2G button in the top rectangle, then click download avatar from Games2Gether in order to obtain the original avatar.
edit:
I can confirm it just happened to me again, after turning on the game today,
edit 2:
Can confirm this happens every time I shut off, then turn the game back on. No mods installed.
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