OK solved it now!
The image has to have a data size less than 50Kb for the controller to be able to download and process.

Took a bit of messing around and tweaking in GIMP but got it down to 24Kb and now it loads.

Hello I'm AJB2K3 and I would like some help.
I work as an Admin for Community.M5Stack.com and working on some demo code that downloads and parses dad stored in a persons individual Json file.
My first step is to get the forum avatar. I can access the avatar from the specified link using a computer but not on an M5Stack controller yet I can download the Json file to the controller.
Would someone take time to give me some guidance please?