I don't think the comments or the meme upvotes go down when down voted. Swiggy told me one reason he isn't using Imgur anymore is because they did that. He'd look at a post he did that was downvotes into oblivion, but when he'd look at his stats, there'd be like 30 upvotes and 40 downvotes. For him to get that many upvotes, the downvote fairies had to have jumped on after he'd gotten so many upvotes. You've seen the stuff he posts, so you can figure someone had it in for him, just because he was good at entertaining. I'll have him put some of his stuff from there here and see what you think.