WordPress: Hiding user based on custom field true/false

I’ve hacked together some code to create a sidebar widget for WordPress that displays all non-subscriber users (ie editors, contributors and admin) in a list.

It also displays a custom field for the users job title.

user_role

Custom fields are created via Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

Currently this works great, however there is now a requirement to hide specific users from the list. I have implemented another field; a true/false box. When ticked, it should display the user in the list.

user_hide

Currently, everything I have tried results in displaying no users, or all users.

Below is the foreach user in it’s original state that will only show users that don’t have a role as “subscriber”.

foreach($allUsers as $currentUser)
{
    if(!in_array( 'subscriber', $currentUser->roles ))
    {
        $users[] = $currentUser;
    }
}

Now somehow, it also needs to “AND if the custom field is true” but I have no idea how to get that but to work. In the database, under user meta, the key “author_hide” shows the vlaues “1” for true, or “0” for false.

I have tried the below but it still displays the same user list as the original despite having gone through all users and ticking/saving where appropriate:

$user_query = new WP_User_Query( array( 'meta_key' => 'author_hide', 'meta_value' => '1','meta_compare' => '==' ) );

foreach($allUsers as $currentUser)
{
    if(!in_array( 'subscriber', $currentUser->roles ) && $user_query)
    {
        $users[] = $currentUser;
    }
}

Any ideas?

Below is the current function:

function contributors() {

$allUsers = get_users('orderby=name&order=ASC');
$users = array();

echo '<ul class="authors-list">';

foreach($allUsers as $currentUser)
{
    if(!in_array( 'subscriber', $currentUser->roles ))
    {
        $users[] = $currentUser;
    }
}

foreach($users as $user)
    {
        ?>
        <li class="author-left author-light rounded-corners">
            <div class="rounded-corners">               
                <div class="rounded-corners">
                    <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $user->ID ); ?>">
                        <strong><?php echo $user->display_name; ?></strong>
                        <br>
                        <?php $user_role = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'author_role', true); if($user_role != '') { echo $user_role; } ?>
                    </a>
                </div>
            </div>

            <div class="pic">
                <a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( $user->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_avatar( $user->user_email, '50' ); ?></a>
            </div>

        </li>
        <?php
    }
echo '</ul>';

}