It's a bit difficult to say. I've never been to hive's trending page lol. I barely open the trending page here on proofofbrain, I mostly stay on "recently uploaded" content tab. As for the downvotes, I can't tell.
But sunsetjesus happens to be a really silly account downvoting anyhow, that's my observation.
Yeh 'trending' is just to see who is getting most upvotes really, it's a good indication of what is 'treasured' on this platform so not a good look in my humble opinion. I have been made a ware of sunsetjesus too as he was the first to target me. Seems he has 'friends' now and it's not so cute any more.