CatBeaconLive public-source tracker
Verified public-source incidents associated with the 2026 Cat in the Hat trend in Netherlands.
A youth officer with Police Basisteam Langstraat publicly warned residents around Waalwijk about Cat in the Hat AI videos that tag people, use recognizable local places, and sometimes carry threatening messages.
Read incident report →Police responded in Amersfoort after roughly twenty to thirty young people went out searching for the Cat in the Hat following TikTok posts naming local locations and circulating a list of schools and neighbourhoods.
Read incident report →A 13-year-old in Veghel was named as the next victim in Cat in the Hat TikTok posts and received threatening private messages, including an image of her home; police visited the family and the account was removed.
Read incident report →Police in Almere publicly warned families after local signals of the Cat in the Hat trend appeared, including realistic AI videos that could name people, schools or locations and cause fear.
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