diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd7b286bce..41f9e96c11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ These changes are available on the `master` branch, but have not yet been releas
   ([#2156](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2156))
 - Fixed `ScheduledEvent.creator_id` returning `str` instead of `int`.
   ([#2162](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2162))
+- Fixed `_bytes_to_base64_data` not defined.
+  ([#2185](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2185))
 - Fixed type-hinting of `values` argument of `basic_autocomplete` to include
   type-hinting of `Iterable[OptionChoice]`.
   ([#2164](https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/pull/2164))
diff --git a/discord/guild.py b/discord/guild.py
index 5d74590dca..2f449beb60 100644
--- a/discord/guild.py
+++ b/discord/guild.py
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ async def create_role(
             if icon is None:
                 fields["icon"] = None
             else:
-                fields["icon"] = _bytes_to_base64_data(icon)
+                fields["icon"] = utils._bytes_to_base64_data(icon)
                 fields["unicode_emoji"] = None
 
         if unicode_emoji is not MISSING: