diff --git a/toontown/toon/ToonDNA.py b/toontown/toon/ToonDNA.py
index 4507efc..a22a307 100644
--- a/toontown/toon/ToonDNA.py
+++ b/toontown/toon/ToonDNA.py
@@ -2519,7 +2519,10 @@ class ToonDNA(AvatarDNA.AvatarDNA):
         return True
 
     def makeFromNetString(self, string):
-        dg = PyDatagram(string)
+        if type(string) == bytes:
+            dg = PyDatagram(string)
+        else:
+            dg = PyDatagram(string.encode('utf-8'))
         dgi = PyDatagramIterator(dg)
         self.type = dgi.getFixedString(1)
         if self.type == 't':