There's a cap to karma loss from downvotes designed to minimise the harm from any single comment.
That's also why some downvote harvesting accounts wind up with positive karma, you might get 3,000 downvotes and 500 upvotes on a controversial comment, but that translates to +490 net karma.
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u/DoubleTie2696 thank god for my reefer Aug 15 '21
Wait why did this happen?