Welcome to the Forum, @michaelpatrickphelps! 
I suspect this is going to involve some back-end work. Your mention of a potential timing association with the appearance of animated notification images reminds me of a recent issue with notification stacking on some Android devices, and Wyze supposedly rolled back a change to fix that issue. If you poke around in the Forum, you’ll see other reports of duplicate notifications in recent months, as well.[1][2]
I think that was a reasonable thing to try. I also think Wyze does a lot of back-end tinkering that they don’t announce or document publicly, and I’m not aware of much we can do as end users aside from trying to share our experiences about it, submitting logs from the app whenever we can replicate an issue, and then following that up by opening a ticket that includes the Log ID in order to try to get the issues on the engineers’ radar.