Edited and cropped photos continually accessed and updated by themselves

I've noticed recently whenever I go to send a recent picture I took (within minutes) through Textra or attach it to an email, there are a handful of photos that appear first instead of the one I took minutes ago. I noticed it happen probably 2 weeks ago and thought maybe it would fix itself. Today I'm finding more and more photos coming up in list that I have not edited or opened in months. These photos are not out of order chronologically in the Photos app, but only in the Textra or Gmail attachment drawer.

I believe these are edited or cropped pictures I saved through Photos, as none of the unedited ones from the same set show up with them. Why is this happening? I see in the Files app those pictures show up as recently opened with a timestamp only minutes before. I have not edited or done anything to these pictures, yet they keep showing up and staying on top. Extremely annoying to scroll through pictures taken months ago to get to the one I took earlier in the day.

Has anyone else experienced this? Pixel 3