Tone Shift Message Reader

Your manager's messages used to feel one way and now they feel different, and your brain has decided it must be about you. This compares the old tone with the new, gives you the three most likely explanations, says whether to act, and drafts a low-key temperature-check message. For anyone reading too much, or not enough, into a shift at work.

Something has shifted in how my manager communicates with me. Here is what their messages used to be like: {OLD_TONE_EXAMPLE}. Here is what they are like now: {NEW_TONE_EXAMPLE}. This change happened around {WHEN_IT_SHIFTED}.

Help me think through whether this is about me specifically or something external. What are the three most likely explanations? What, if anything, should I do? Draft a temperature-check message I could send that would not make things weird if it turns out to be nothing.