Office mates ignore me

When I was in my early teens, I spent a big amount of time feeling that people ignore me and that I might just be pretty unlikeable after all. Then I passed high school and by that time things improved, and when I got into university, I made tons of friends and got surrounded by tons of people who really liked me. I made some really good friend and my banter and jokes among them flow pretty well!

But then even that time passed really quick, and I went to office, never realizing I will face it again what I once thought I had overcome — people ignoring what I say as if I am a boring person, or that I don’t make sense.

It’s usually a habit of mine to start being playful or joking around with people when I get comfortable around them, and I hardly get any reactions from people who otherwise have started identifying as my friends in office. These are people with whom I spend quality time out of office as well, hence they are not limited to professional interactions only. Going through a whole day of trying to connect with them by being myself, and seeing them not react makes me feel so invalidated and unwillingly frustrated, cuz it brings back the feeling of, “I might just be unlikeable” from my teen years.

Some days ago, I had gone to visit the university and told my friends there that I struggle with interacting as good with my office mates, as I do with them, and they told me it might just be because we still haven’t got to understand each other much, which I understand but then there’s a guy in my batch who very soon started clicking with most people and became everyone’s favorite. I wonder if this was because he connected with everyone so soon

So what might actually be wrong with me, or wrong with the situation? How come it be that about a hundred people in my university pay attention to me and like what I say, while these new friends don’t acknowledge my presence so much sometimes?