What the response to "vegans are hypocritical".

So, I went vegan recently, and I've been watching a lot of videos to be better informed. However, in pretty much any comment section, be it TikTok, YouTube and etc there's at least one who says "vegans are hypocrites", how we arbitrary choose that animal lives matters more than plant lives. What are your thoughts on this?

Personally, AFAIK, plants don't have emotions as well as feel pain the same way animals do, so it ultimately causes less harm. Not to mention, more plants are hurt due to animal feeding and ultimately slaughter.