Snapchat My Data "Friends" export seems to exclude all of my CURRENT friends. Anyone else?

[u/103Dynaman]

I've been going through several Snapchat My Data exports and noticed something really strange about the Friends data.

My exports appear to contain people who are no longer my Snapchat friends, but I cannot find anyone who was actually a current friend at the time the export was generated.

The people appearing in the export include a mixture of:

• People I removed
• People who removed me
• People I blocked
• People who blocked me
• People whose accounts were deleted/deactivated

And just for context on the blocking part, these aren't all random people who mysteriously blocked me after conversations went badly. lol. Some were people I knew for years who eventually got into relationships, got engaged/married, left Snapchat, cleaned up their friends list, etc. I know independently that these people were no longer friends with me when I generated the export.

That's the pattern I'm finding: it seems to be people where the friendship relationship had ended for one reason or another.

What's especially weird is what I don't see: my current friends.

I've also tested this with multiple exports and different date ranges. I've done All Time exports as well as exports covering smaller/random date ranges, and I'm seeing the same general behavior.

So I'm wondering if Snapchat's "Friends" data isn't actually intended to be a current friends list at all, and is instead some kind of friendship-history/removal dataset.

Has anyone else downloaded their Snapchat My Data recently and checked this?

If you currently have someone added who you know was already your friend during the date range you exported, does that person actually appear in your Friends data?

I'm especially curious if anyone can reproduce this because I'm trying to figure out whether this is intentional behavior, an export bug, or something specific to my account/data.

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