So you look out in the yard and notice there’s a skunk there. What do you do? Directly confronting the skunk does not usually end well. Tossing food out for the skunk to chase elsewhere isn’t so good either, as the skunk learns to associate your yard with food and comes back later to see if the nice human will give it more.
Nope, the thing to do is grab the dog, shut the doors and windows, and outlast the skunk, It will eventually get bored and move on to annoy somebody else.
The technical term for this strategy is called “winning the Internet.”