It affected a lot more people actually, including one of my old account’s main video posts, so not just stories. It wasn’t popular but still sucked because I was featuring penmanship in motion but now many of them are just static screenshots. But that’s the implicit risk when hosting on someone else’s platform so c'est la vie I guess.
Geez, yeah, that notice reads like they lost some data. And didn't tell anyone about it, unless you looked. And in July 2025 they'll memory-hole the "Sorry^W, we lost your data." notice.