Maybe yeah, but instead of New York it's Colorado, and instead of being right next to a major metropolitan area it's 30 minutes away. And has fake barns that are actually other buildings and fake farmland that's just fenced off grass for some reason.

I hope you're right but reddit is such a cesspool I feel like at least a few of them have to be unironic

Same. Unfortunately I have a hard time looking away from car crashes instead of directly at them until my brain melts

I'm not sure I would call it beautiful so much as mesmerizing, in the same way a slow motion car crash is