I have the same thing. I'm pretty sure it's people who see the story on the latest updates page and click the newest chapter instead of the title. The chapter is the only part that's blue text, which a lot of people will register first as a link out of habit. Then they go to your story's main...
People have claimed that kids these days are the worst they've ever been since literally pre-history. Within my lifetime I've seen "the doomed generation" move from the millenials to the zoomers to gen alpha. It always happens because people have worse memories than they think and are terrible...