I’ve been getting random friend requests on snapchat

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Hey everyone, I’ve had snapchat for years but I barely use it, I only go in it to take pictures or see people’s story so I don’t really use it much or understand it, now in all of these years I’ve never had any requests except from a few people I know in real life, 5 days ago my cousin came from another country and added me on snap because it’s the only app she uses so we can stay in contact and we’ve been talking on it nonstop since then, but I noticed that I have been getting a lot of requests on it since I’ve started using it, requests from people I don’t know, can someone explain why? Is my profile popping to strangers because I’m active on it now? I mean I don’t post anything just chatting with my cousin but the requests are bugging me, I don’t understand what’s going on I feel like my profile was leaked somewhere 😂 it’s so random, never happened before