Flock cameras will never figure it out
The short version: A blue-collar meme channel jokes that Flock cameras can't keep up with real-world messiness, but the humor points at a serious surveillance blind spot.
Our Take
Unmakesensible's corner of YouTube is built on trade humor and truck memes, not surveillance policy, but this clip taps into something a lot of working folks already sense: these camera networks are sold as all-seeing, yet they're full of gaps, misreads, and dumb automation that nobody asked for. Credit to the channel for turning that frustration into a laugh instead of a shrug — humor is often how communities first process the creep of mass surveillance into daily life.
The joke lands because it's rooted in truth. Flock's ALPR system is marketed as infallible, but it's a mass-scanning dragnet logging every plate that passes, regardless of suspicion, and feeding that data into a growing web of police and private access. Glitches and "it'll never figure it out" moments are funny until you remember the system is still vacuuming up your location history every time you drive past one of these poles.
If this clip got you wondering how many of these cameras are watching your own commute, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and visit take action for ways to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your town.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Unmakesensible, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.