Member.avatar to bytes for Pillow

[calm monolith]

I seem to be having an issue with is. Never really worked with pillow much before today, but when I get the bytes of a member's avatar and try to pass it to pillow's Image.open() method, I get this:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte

My brain is just failing me currently and not providing the solution I should probably know.

avatar_as_bytes = await interaction.author.avatar.read()
...
...
avatar = Image.open(avatar_as_bytes)

[lethal swan]

Image.open(io.BytesIO(avatar_as_bytes))```

pls try now, I'm about to sleep

[calm monolith]

That makes sense .

[lethal swan]

you tried? it works?

[calm monolith]

yes.

Thanks, @lethal swan I knew I was missing something simple

[graceful wave]

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[lethal swan]

you're welcome

[slender turtle]

Good night

[lethal swan]

Gn