Me when I see a Flock Camera #funny #shorts
The short version: A dark electro-pop satire short from Cosmic Baby Media turns the dread of spotting a Flock camera into a catchy, unsettling anthem.
Our Take
Cosmic Baby Media's short, featuring Riva Tellsall, does something straight-faced advocacy often can't: it makes the gut-level unease of spotting a Flock camera on your street into something you can actually laugh at, even as the hook "they know where you've been" lingers like a warning label. Satire like this works precisely because it's not wrong — these cameras really are logging your plate, your location, and your timestamp, often without you ever opting in or even knowing the data exists.
What's striking is how normalized that dread has become. A glance at a pole-mounted camera shouldn't trigger a reflexive "they got me," but for a growing number of Americans it does, and a dark electro-pop joke is one sign that the culture is starting to catch up to the technology. Humor is a gateway; it gets people asking questions that spreadsheets and policy briefs never will.
If the song's chorus got stuck in your head, put that unease to use. Check our map to see how many of these cameras are already logging plates near you, and head to take action for concrete steps to push back before "they know where you've been" stops being satire and just becomes the weather.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Cosmic Baby Media, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.