Sorry, it will go into a negative impact again. The downvote counter will seriously go out of business if it happens again because of more hate on users and made them quit for straight reasons because of other users' actions. It had it since the version came out in 2011, but was removed in 2016, so it's not going to happen again.

Okay makes sense why now but I joined in December last year so had no idea imgflip ever had something like that

Then you should be allowed to enable/disable viewing downvotes. On both sides