The feeling that people just don't like you for no reason

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I seem to function as a stand-in for other people the person is mad at or doesn't like, and so people act out their negative feelings about other people on me for some reason. That seems to be a dynamic that happens to me commonly IRL as well as online. I'm not sure what it is about me. But it's like I'm just a placeholder, I'm sort of a blank that people project their issues with other people onto. Maybe IRL it happens because I'm not the most expressive person like with my facial expressions and body language? I don't know what would explain why it happens to me online too.

I get this all the time, in fact I was recently pulled in the office at work because the other staff said I didn't talk to them enough and I often in a bad mood or not smiling enough. I can't help how I look and the fact I can't make small talk for no reason but people just assume what I'm like without trying to get to know me first. So yea, I get this alot, people not liking me for no reason but I try not to let it bother me, Ive kinda got used to it now over the years so I just get on with my life.