@Jellybagel my dad would call it feeding the fish, cause all they're doing is eating the bait off your hook. 😭😭 He'd go, "did you catch something or were you just feeding the fish over there?"
Keep in mind our earliest accounts of norse mythology were written by a christian guy with a very biased agenda. So what we know about their mythos could very well be extremely skewed. Loki might not even be a real god, just a post-christianity amalgam of various tricksters. No joke, one big theory was that this christian guy was trying to push for Loki to be a Christ-like figure of all things.