My fans stay at a fixed speed after installing SMCFancontrol. What do I do?

Hi all!
I'm having a quite annoying problem on my 2011 MacBook Pro and I've tried several things that are posted on here but nothing works.
Here's the thing :
I installed SMCFanControl a while ago. I thought it was a great little program until I recently noticed that even when turning
it off, my fans only go as fast as the minimum speed I set them to in SMCFanControl, even when the app is closed.
When I revert it to the default setting(2000rpm), it doesn't go higher than 2000rpm,even when the laptop hits 70 degrees celsius...
It stays freezed on 2000rpm. When I put it on 3500rpm, it stays freezed on there. Even if I put it on default,close the program, uninstall it with
AppZapper, restart my laptop, etc..
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Kind regards,
Sven

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