Myspace just did a cleanup of accounts that the have been deleted, either by the user or myspace themselves. When the account is deleted, you can't see it anymore, but it is still counted in your friend count. They ran a cleanup to rid all the deleted accounts out of everybody's friend lists. I seen my count go down by three(two people I knew personally that deleted their own accounts quite a while back, the other one I notice was gone was MIA XPTer Eddie Normous).
I'd say a lot of people in your list had deleted the accounts themselves long ago(probably cause they left the industry). A few may have been Sierra Sinn-type deletions(nudity, or other offenses), but I don't think Tom and crew went on a crusade to delete every myspace profile that belonged to some one involved in the porn industry.
Did any of that make any sense?
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