Why posting to Reddit gives me anxiety

"The social pressure of being accepted and liked by your peers exists on Reddit, and it feels like highschool all over again."

The reason it feels like highschool is because most likely, the people responding to your posts negatively and down voting at every chance are high school students (or sometimes younger) or early twenties (many still have this mentality).

This is why we shouldn't take comments on the Internet very seriously: I seriously doubt many adults would take relationship advice or debate politics with a person still in middle school, but we somehow take criticism from those very same people.