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The short version: A creator called Showstopper turns Flock Safety ALPRs into pixelated prey in a Duck Hunt-style mashup, using retro gaming nostalgia to make camera surveillance visible and mockable.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Showstopper's #FlockHunt mashup is a clever bit of culture-jamming. Dropping Flock Safety's license plate readers into the crosshairs of an 8-bit hunting game does something a dry policy brief never could — it makes an invisible piece of infrastructure suddenly feel absurd, gameable, and worth questioning. Humor is a legitimate entry point into a serious conversation about networks of cameras logging where you drive, when, and how often.
That's really the point we keep making: these cameras are everywhere now, bolted to poles on ordinary streets, feeding plate scans into databases that outlast any single police investigation. A retro game riff works precisely because it strips away the 'public safety' branding and shows the bare mechanic underneath — something is tracking you, repeatedly, automatically. Turning that into a target in a Nintendo-style shooter is satire doing its job.
If this video makes you want to know whether you're living next to one of these readers, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back for real — not just in pixels — our take-action page has concrete steps for your city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Showstopper, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.