Name info missing for a particular user ID

When I fetch my following list through Helix, it reports I’m following user ID 29325630. However, if I request the user info for this ID, I get back an empty list (zero total and empty data array). I can still get the other users following this one, and even this user’s follows, but not anything with the name, etc.

This shows I’m following:
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?from_id=44327716&to_id=29325630

{"total":1,"data":[{"from_id":"44327716","to_id":"29325630","followed_at":"2013-11-08T18:27:46Z"}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjoiIn0"}}

No data for the user:
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users?id=29325630

{"data":[]}

The mystery user follows Werster:
https://api.twitch.tv/helix/users/follows?from_id=29325630

{"total":1,"data":[{"from_id":"29325630","to_id":"21534457","followed_at":"2013-02-25T04:05:58Z"}],"pagination":{"cursor":"eyJiIjpudWxsLCJhIjoiMTM2MTc2NTE1ODU3NzQ5ODAwMCJ9"}}

Kraken v5 can’t show me the info either:
https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/users/44327716/follows/channels?offset=105&limit=1

{"_total":135,"follows":[]}

Even the main site tells me I’m following 135 but only shows 134:
https://www.twitch.tv/hopper262/following

If the user were banned or deleted, I’d expect the follow metadata to be correspondingly deleted or suppressed.

If you look up the ID in v5 you’ll get the following {"error":"Unprocessable Entity","status":422,"message":"User \"29325630\" is unavailable"}

Which would indicate the user could have been banned, suspended, deactivated, or maybe something else. I would assume that the reason it remains in a list of follows is that the condition causing the account to be unavailable might be temporary, and if a banned account would be unbanned it would continue to have all of it’s previous followers instead of losing them all.

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