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Community dynamics

Who responds to whom, emotionally.

Each ribbon shows how a post's emotional tone flows into its reply's tone. Grief gets mirrored: about 1 in 4 people reply with grief themselves. Anxiety doesn't — only 7 out of 100 reply with anxiety; more than half offer warm reassurance instead. The community has unwritten response rules.

"Grief gets mirrored. Anxiety gets reassurance. Soothing Empathy leads in the replies."

Based on 2,899 posts and comments of meditation on Reddit, January 2024 – June 2025. Emotion classification via Google Research's GoEmotions (Demszky et al. 2020), trained on Reddit comments — see methodology for limitations.

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