the people who think that "no response" = win aren't going to engage with what you post regardless, why take the time to respond to someone who categorically will not listen or care?
if you have a comeback that will leave them shitting and pissing or that you think will cause onlookers to slightly chortle then by all means go ahead, i love a good joke, especially ones directed at cunts, but make sure that it remains just a joke. that you're not checking your notifications half-hoping that some rando on the other side of the planet left a brand new reply for you to epically pwn.
speaking from experience it is not a worthwhile use of anyone's time
a chimp can rip your nose off, if an ape-thing starts sprinting at you you sprint in the opposte direction. frankly if you take the time to check for an erection you're already fucked regardless
once-ler: from the 2012 The Lorax movie, became a tumblr sexyman in the past and is now regarded as the posterboy for a very particular era of tumblr "cringe".
bill cipher: antagonist from the 2012 animated tv series "gravity falls"
alastor: character from the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel, his character design looks kinda like op
the fact that i had to stitch this together cos lemmy doesn't support multi image uploads probably doesn't help but yea tumblr screenshots can be hard to parse if you're not familiar with the format
tumblr chains work via reblogs, same logic as a quote retweet but the added text is below the original post rather than on top.
the purple on black text are screenshots of tags (they're not always purple it depends on the theme of the screenshoter). tags are weird because they're supposed to just be a way for people to mark posts, so for example you tag a post as "nature" and then people can search your blog for them or filter them out, but in time people started to speak in them presumably because they're less invasive than adding text (tags aren't carrier over by reblogs)
instance checks out