Those seem like competing/contradictory thoughts. If one wasn't competing; leveraging a "popularity metric" to make themselves feel good, then it being reset, wiped-out, removed entirely shouldn't have any impact on their state of mind. The fact that you felt wronged by the modification of your score while ceding that it was artificially inflated in the first place hints at you knowing that this sense of "importance" was obtained on fraudulent grounds but the feeling was worth more than the honesty.
There's probably a couple 90 minute psychology 101 group analysis sessions packed in there but I do think it prudent to suggest some introspection on why that score mattered so much to you, because that's not healthy. You seem like a good kid, don't get wrapped up in the social media "popularity" trap. There are some incredibly stupid people that are ridiculously popular. If they were all herded off a cliff, the world would be no worse off.
The Stephen Hawking foundation has 7,497 followers on twitter. The Albert Einstein account, 228,000. Cardi B has 17.6 million. We are what we consume, for a significant portion of the population, they choose stupid.