Chat GPT deleted my messages all of a sudden after a failed image generation

I was using the ChatGPT mobile app. After a particular response about some animals, Chatgpt asked if I wanted to generate an image of the two animals I was asking about. I said yes sure. Chatgpt started generating the image but told me it couldn’t because “too many people are generating images”. So I clicked exit. when I access back into the chat, the messages and responses are all gone, except for the first question/prompt and response. Right in that response, it adds a line:

“This image generation request did not follow our content policy.”

I was like ??? First of all, where are my messages? Second of all, it’s just an image of two supposed animals!

When I tried clicking to see if I could generate anything else, it said my chat has been too long and I can’t ask anymore, start a new one.

Has anyone been there? Does this mean I just lost every info curated for the upcoming writing of my essay?

Chatgpt for me is giving unrelated answers to what i ask and i’m writing stories & scenes. Since yesterday too still ongoing. 7h

Could this be because of the new Gpt-4.1 system? or some error Again