[dennisw]

Probably was ruined by a few trout-pouts influencers on Instagram. This is why we cannot have any nice apple pies.

[Omnivore-Dan]

Believe it or not this apple farm is in New Jersey! North western Jersey has some terrific apples and fall foliage.
https://www.riamedefarm.com/

[drwoof]

Correct. The number of places I used to cherish have been destroyed as a direct result of ‘social media’. For example, years ago there was an out of the way USFS ‘tree farm’ of maybe 160 acres near my home. Beautiful creek running through it, etc. For years it was a perfect place for some leash-free dog adventures. A few people knew about it, and all was wonderful. Then Facebook came along. Within less than 90 days, the place was jammed with yayhoos and their yayhoo dogs. Dog fights, dog poop, and garbage everywhere. It all ended. The same has happened to many special places off in the forests I once knew. Not so special anymore. Used to be that one had to have the kind of friends that truly enjoyed nature and its magic in order to know about such places. Now everyone on the planet knows, and just MUST have a selfie there. Quite sad, really.

[The Louiswu]

Some folks just want to run a little apple pie shop and make a few bucks and be happy, they don't necessarily have the means to handle large scale increases in business and success. Upscaling to handle more customers comes at a hefty cost most of the time including a decrease in quality and more pressure and stress, not something that everyone wants or can handle. Combine those factors with a few trolls who will crap on you and your livelihood just for laughs and life can take a sudden bad turn.

Sometimes social media is just a pack of locust moving from thing to thing and stripping it of it's quaintness and sometimes it's value