Flock Cameras Got Me Sweating | Dark Humor Dad Joke Shirt
The short version: A dad-joke t-shirt channel riffs on Flock-camera paranoia, and the joke lands because the anxiety behind it is real.
Our Take
High In The Pines isn't trying to break news here — it's selling a shirt and cracking wise about how Flock Safety's cameras have made regular people nervous just driving down their own street. Credit where it's due: dark humor is a legitimate way people process the creeping sense that they're being logged everywhere they go, even if this video is a two-minute merch pitch and not an investigation.
But the joke only works because the premise is true. Flock's automated license plate readers have spread into thousands of neighborhoods with little public debate, scanning plates, timestamps, and travel patterns regardless of whether you've done anything wrong. When "the cameras got me sweating" is relatable enough to print on a t-shirt, that's a signal the surveillance has become normalized faster than the oversight meant to check it.
If the punchline hits a little close to home, don't stop at laughing it off. Check our camera map to see what's actually watching your routes, and visit take action for concrete steps to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your area.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of High In The Pines, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.