Familiar Hack

They actually reversed it, cause they are plantains. A loss in ranks now means a decrease in rank number (eg. 4600 to 4200 is down 400, accompanied by a blue down arrow)

Just to make it even more confusing, its backwards on the login character select screen compared to rankings site.
On the char select screen red arrow means you are passing others, blue means you are falling behind.
On the rankings, blue means you are passing others, red means you are falling behind.