It affects the meme creator because it can randomly refresh when you’re making one and then you have to start over. You didn’t click the refresh button, the site just did it unwarranted.

?! i noticed this happening to and i thought it was just me ngl cus i use private browsing

Most likely to encourage, well, page updating for notifs and other things such as an image's comments. Most likely a site design thing as the only thing on this site with "live" updating (doesn't work half the time) is memechat.