Why should the shape be rotated again in the @keyframe step?

HTML-CSS
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  **Your code so far**


<style>
.back {
  position: fixed;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background: white;
  animation-name: backdiv;
  animation-duration: 1s;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.heart {
  position: absolute;
  margin: auto;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  background-color: pink;
  height: 50px;
  width: 50px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  animation-name: beat;
  animation-duration: 1s;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}
.heart:after {
  background-color: pink;
  content: "";
  border-radius: 50%;
  position: absolute;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  top: 0px;
  left: 25px;
}
.heart:before {
  background-color: pink;
  content: "";
  border-radius: 50%;
  position: absolute;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  top: -25px;
  left: 0px;
}

@keyframes backdiv {
  50% {
    background: #ffe6f2;
  }
}

@keyframes beat {
  0% {
    transform: scale(1) rotate(-45deg);
  }
  50% {
    transform: scale(0.6) rotate(-45deg);
  }
}

</style>
<div class="back"></div>
<div class="heart"></div>

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.45 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Make a CSS Heartbeat using an Infinite Animation Count

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Because you need to keep it rotated at -45deg all the way through the animation. When you set the transform property in the keyframe it wipes out what it was previously set to and replaces it with the new one. So if you don’t add rotate(-45deg) to every transform then the heart won’t stay rotated the entire time.

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