Your stance that they are overly intolerant would have more credibility if you had stated it more tastefully. As it is, you have lead me to believe your attitude was more likely the actual problem.

I mean often online discourse is different from real life discourse. Additionally I could imagine that OP could be fairly upset about this, I know such a culture would drive me insane after a few days.

Going by your tone I'm going to assume you almost never project rays of sunshine from any orifices and maybe it's not their culture of happiness that's the problem.

I don't project sunshine or toxic mojo all day, but if you try to pump sunshine up my butt, you're going to encounter some of my shit.

Wow. In many years of reading posts on hackernews I've never seen 3 immediate replies asking if the writer of the comment is the problem, given their tone.

Thank you for calling the abrasive tone out.

Have you ever considered that you might be the problem?

When I was younger I may have written a very similar comment about some places I've worked... and while I still agree that the environment wasn't my cup of tea... my intolerance of others was a bigger problem.

Have you considered that he may not be the problem? It is known by now that too much sugar is bad for you. And for someone not raised on American diet of the dumb smiles and constant fake positivity that diet is indeed vomit-inducing. That comment may simply reflect the experience and frustration felt in such a place, it bears no indication how the op was acting there.