Flock cameras are “unnatural” and Bigfoot’s had it. Can anyone relate? #trailcam #bigfoot #flock

Our Take

Credit where it's due: "You Awake Yet?" turned a trail-cam gag into a sharp little joke about just how omnipresent automated cameras have become. Even Bigfoot, the patron saint of staying off the grid, can't dodge a Flock Safety lens anymore. It's funny because it's true — these cameras have crept from city intersections into rural roads, apartment complexes, and neighborhood entrances all over the country.

The humor works precisely because it taps into a real anxiety: there's no longer a "remote" in America. Flock's pitch has always been that its cameras are for catching bad guys on busy streets, but the network has quietly expanded into places where there's no traffic problem to solve — just more plates, more faces, more data flowing into a private company's servers. If a mythical recluse can't escape the grid, what chance does an ordinary driver have?

Jokes aside, this is exactly the kind of creeping normalization we track. Check our camera map to see how far this network has spread near you, and visit take action if you want to push back on cameras showing up in your own town.