No, someone cannot remain your Snapchat best friend if they have deleted you from their friends list. On Snapchat, your “best friends” are determined by who you snap with the most frequently.
If someone deletes you as a friend, they have removed you from their friends list and severed the Snapchat connection, meaning you can no longer send snaps back and forth.
Without the ability to snap each other, your Snapstreaks and interactions will end, and you will no longer show up as that person’s “best friend” or even on their friends list at all.
How Snapchat Best Friends Work
Snapchat’s “Best Friends” feature shows you your top 3 friends who you snap with the most.
It is calculated by assigning a score to each friend based on how frequently you snap back and forth, how long your streaks are, and how quickly you respond to each other’s snaps.
The 3 friends with the highest scores become your Best Friends. Some key things to know:
- You can have up to 8 Best Friends shown on your profile.
- Best Friends update every week to reflect your recent snapping activity.
- Just because someone is your Best Friend does not mean you are theirs.
- Best Friend status requires frequent, reciprocal snapping activity.
- If you stop snapping someone regularly, they will drop off your Best Friends.
So in essence, Best Friends on Snapchat indicates the friends you interact with the most on the app. It is a reflection of your snapping habits and connections.
What Happens When You Get Deleted by a Snapchat Friend
Getting deleted by a friend on Snapchat has several effects:
- They are entirely removed from your friends list.
- You can no longer view their Snapchat profile or see their public stories.
- All of your one-on-one chat history with them is deleted.
- You can no longer send them snaps or chat messages.
- Your Snapstreak ends immediately upon getting deleted.
- Bitmoji connections are broken.
- You get removed from their Best Friends list.
Essentially, deleting someone completely cuts off your Snapchat connection and severs all aspects of your Snapchat friendship.
Without the ability to interact, snap, or chat, it becomes impossible to maintain any type of Best Friend status.
Losing Your Best Friend Status
As mentioned above, your Best Friends list is fluid and changes over time to reflect your current snapping habits. There are a few scenarios where someone can go from being your Best Friend to not:
Naturally phasing out: If you gradually snap another friend more often, your Best Friend will naturally drop down in your rankings and fall off the list over time.
Deliberate reduction in snaps: If you intentionally start snapping your Best Friend less frequently, their score will decrease and they’ll lose their status.
Big fight or friendship ending: A sudden fight or end to a friendship can result in an immediate cessation of snapping, causing your Best Friend to plummet down the ranks.
One-sided deletion: If your Best Friend deletes you from their friends list, you will both lose your Best Friend statuses as you can no longer interact.
Essentially, anything that significantly disrupts the frequent snapping activity can cause someone’s Best Friend status to disappear. But in cases where the friendship fizzles out mutually or organically, the status loss usually happens more gradually.
Trying to Regain Best Friend Status
If you lose your Best Friend status with someone unexpectedly and want to regain it, the strategy is simple – increase your snapping activity again!
Here’s what to do:
- Snap them more frequently throughout the day.
- Reignite old conversations and inside jokes over snap.
- Send snaps from fun activities, travels, food, pets – anything interesting!
- Draw on and annotate your snaps to encourage responses.
- Respond quickly to their snaps to keep the conversation flowing.
- Send chat messages to spark non-snap conversations.
- Open their chat first whenever you use Snapchat to show interest.
Ramping up your snapping and chat activity can help rebuild your score and ranking. But keep in mind, both users have to reciprocate interest and engagement – one-sided efforts may not succeed. If your old Best Friend no longer engages, finding new active Snapchat friends may be better than chasing the past.
What To Do If You Get Deleted by a Best Friend
Reflect on why it may have happened: Did you have a fight, say something offensive, or violate their boundaries?
Give them space: Getting deleted warrants respecting their privacy and not trying to re-add them right away.
Distract yourself: Focus your snapping energy on other friends for a while or take a Snapchat break.
Move forward: Eventually try making new Snapchat connections and nurturing new Best Friend potentials.
With time, losing a Best Friend status won’t feel as significant. Each friend brings something unique to the table, and new friends can become just as meaningful down the road.
Being deleted by a Snapchat Best Friend ends your ability to interact and eliminates the Best Friend status. Without frequent, reciprocal snaps, the special ranking disappears.
While you can try rebuilding the connection later if both users are willing, in most cases it is healthiest to accept the loss and focus your energy elsewhere on new Snapchat friendships and interests. With an open outlook, you will discover new Best Friends in no time.