Which is, indeed, a bad faith argument.

Also, answering their comments is not ignoring.

Oh, so a bad faith argument

There’s a I guess you could call niche? trope? in some fantasy anime/manga where the protagonist is actively trying to be a villain but is constantly being misunderstood by the people as being some sort of saint.

I can think of two different ones from the top of my head, one called “I’m the Evil Lord from an Intergalactic Empire” and another called “The Mistaken Saintly Life of a Villainous Scion”, the former fitting closer to what you asked for than the latter. Note, however, that I am not recommending either of them. The former is entertaining enough and I haven’t read the manga to give an opinion on it, but the anime isn’t that big of a deal imo, whereas the latter is just straight up trash.

He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action. He’s a furry little flatfoot, who’ll never flinch from a fray. He’s got more than just mad skill, he’s got a beaver tail and a bill. And the women swoon whenever they hear him say “GRGRGRGRGRGRGR”

A lot of replies here still wander into sounding mad imo Instead, I would fake not getting the insult and just make them uncomfortable by saying something like “Wow that’s cool :D” and then just move on. Sort of like when you acknowledge a child doing something dumb but they’re so proud of it you don’t want to ruin it for them.

Well I have bad news for you: that’s (probably) the original. However, it does seem that there’s this other one [WARNING, NSFW] with a panel that looks extremely similar which might’ve been the inspiration for this, but that’s just speculation on my behalf.

How can you tell it’s AI? /gen