GraphQL API, Topic stargazerCount and stargazers.totalCount large discrepancies?

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Hi,

I'm using the GraphQL API to get topic stargazers, i.e:

query {
  topic3d: topic(name: "3d") {
    id
    name
    stargazerCount
    stargazers {
      totalCount
    }
  }
}

But there's a big discrepancy between stargazerCount and stargazers.totalCount, does anyone know why? For example, in the query above it returns:

{
  "data": {
    "topic3d": {
      "id": "TO_kgCiM2Q",
      "name": "3d",
      "stargazerCount": 38257,
      "stargazers": {
        "totalCount": 37881
      }
    }
  }
}

Originally I just assumed stargazers.totalCount was cached and when the cache is refreshed the two numbers would converge... but they never seem to. For topics with a large number of followers stargazers.totalCount always stays 300-400+ behind stargazerCount. Are there certain conditions (private profile?) where users aren't included in stargazers.totalCount?

Thanks in advance for any information.

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