I have mixed feelings when people interact with the trolls. On one hand, I enjoy watching logic and facts beat them down and on the other I am always waiting for the alt accounts to show up and the childish insults to start. Which forces me to interact with them.
In all the years that I have been on IMGFLIP I can remember only one drone that ever attempted to add to the discussion in a real meaningful way. After I learned cancel culture from watching them, I started blocking the more aggressive ones and stopped reading there would be comments, they tend to fade away after first trying the alt accounts con. I don't comment on their memes nor even care if they make them, they add nothing to my life, and I don't waste time on them.
All I have to do to make a meme is watch the left and expose the lies, they are meme gold. The games they play in response don't bother me, I rarely look at stats, almost never read their responses because as you have already pointed out they are only here to undermine the meme, never to discuss it, or try to argue it is wrong with actual facts. Even the occasional woke mods banning me works in my favor, I have a little more time to observe the left.