How do you make the cartoon avatar everybody has as their profile pic?

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I looked it up like 500 hundred times and I can't find the thing like "Customize/Create" your avatar

[echinopsis .]

You can use a photo avatar or a cartoon avatar from another site, and if you have a Facebook or Twitter account, you can also use those avatars.

Go to: http://profile.yahoo.com/y/settings/privacy/ - make sure your profile isn't hidden, because if it is, your avatar won't show.

In case you want to use a Facebook or Twitter avatar, you need to link those accounts in the Profile options.
http://profile.yahoo.com/y/settings/linked-accounts/

You have several options in case you want a photo avatar:
a) go to your Yahoo! Answers settings at http://answers.yahoo.com/my-activity/edit/about , click "Update photo or avatar",
b) go to your Yahoo! Profile at http://profile.yahoo.com/ , click on the current avatar.
Now upload a picture or choose one of the pics you've uploaded previously.

Note 1: if you are on a mobile, you need to switch to desktop mode first in order for this to work.

Note 2: Yahoo no longer supports the creation of their cartoon avatars - it may still work for a few users, but the support was said to stop April 1. And no, this is no joke, the matter was announced quite a while ago...

[Riki]

The Yahoo avatars page is no longer available but you can do this:
Create a personal avatar below save it to you pc then upload it as a photo.

http://freeavatarsonline.com/
http://www.avatarsdb.com/
Photo

Click on your current avatar then click edit my preferences to the right of your default avatar click update photo. Follow the prompts to upload a photo or saved avatar from your pc.
from Yahoo