You are able to deflate the group member count of groups by joining it then spam leaving with the api, if done right it can visually remove all of the members from the group. This happens to the role count aswell. You can also do this with join requests to inflate it by spamming the join request accept api and same thing with kicking users or putting them to a different role. It duplicates the number visually by a few.
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