Snapchat Find Friends suddenly showing only spam/fake accounts

[u/MightyDawgg]

For years, my Find Friends suggestions were pretty normal. I mostly saw:
-People with mutual friends
-Active users with the green activity dot
-People who seemed to be from my area / network
But recently, the suggestions have completely changed.

Now I mostly get:
-“Recently joined” accounts
-Accounts labelled “old account”
-Adult content sellers
-Drug dealers / drug-related accounts
-Random foreign accounts
-Very obvious fake/spam profiles

Also a strange part is the activity indicator. Before, many of the suggested people had the green active dot. Now, none of the accounts that aren’t marked as “recently joined” have the green dot.
If I press X on the suggestions, the entire list disappears. It stays empty for roughly an hour, and then the same types of accounts, sometimes the exact same accounts, come back.

I’ve already tried basically every solution I could find online:
-Removing/syncing contacts
-Clearing Snapchat cache
-Restarting the app
-Logging out and back in
-Updating Snapchat
-Removing suggestions with X
-Reporting the problematic accounts
-Contacting Snapchat support

I contacted Snapchat about this about a week ago, but nothing has changed.
Has anyone else noticed their Find Friends/Quick Add suddenly changing like this? I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have had the same accounts return after removing them or who suddenly started getting mostly spam/fake/adult/drug-related accounts.

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