Was a video clip on social media of Rikki Doolan singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" taken from the livestreamed YouTube recording of singing at the "Unite The Kingdom" rally in London? No, that's not true: The audio of the clip on social media seems to have another human or synthetic voice dubbed over the original singing. Most of the video footage in the clip is from the livestream on YouTube, but the audio is not identical. This social media account used this same spoof format to target another performer at the UTK rally.
The altered clip appeared in a post (archived here) published on X by @a_toots on May 16, 2026. It was captioned:
I must insist that you watch this from beginning to end. It's beyond fucking awful and unintentionally hilarious.
This is a screenshot from the start of the clip:
(Image source: post by @a_toots on X.com.)
The video of the Unite The Kingdom (UTK) Rally was livestreamed by Tommy Robinson on YouTube on May 16, 2026 (archived here).
The moment pictured above occurs at 5 hours, 44 minutes, 7 seconds. There are three vocalists from the band UTK Collective (archived here) standing stage left, and Rikki Doolan, minister at Spirit Embassy church, singing center stage. The livestream video (embedded below) will begin at that time.
The next minute of the YouTube footage appears in the clip posted on X. In some cases the clip zooms in on people's faces and gestures for a negative dramatic effect. As the song is wrapping up, the @a_toots clip has even more heavy-handed video edits, such as an extreme close-up of a man in the crowd licking his lips at 45 seconds. The final 16 seconds of the clip is recycled black and white video clips of the man in the crowd and a replay of the song's audio that is obviously distorted with choppy reverberation.
While the last portion of the @a_toots video clip is clearly an altered remix, the first minute of the clip's audio is also altered. The audio was either digitally altered or replaced with a dubbed voice.
In a podcast streamed live on Doolan's YouTube channel May 18, 2026 (archived here), he addressed the question of the altered voice. At 2 hours, 2 minutes, 11 seconds, Doolan says:
The real far right even used AI-enhanced clips of me singing at the Unite the Kingdom Rally on Saturday. And they used AI to make my voice go out of tune. This is the real far right. And those clips have now went viral all across the internet, bringing a lot of traffic to my social medias, of people saying that I can't sing and saying that it was a disaster, blah blah blah. When anybody who was there at the event had a great time, the singing was brilliant, in tune. But these far right haters have caused all of that from fake misrepresentation, using AI and misleading the people.
Lead Stories did not verify how the audio was altered. But comparing the audio of the original livestream to the altered clip from @a_toots, they are clearly not the same.
Another altered clip (archived here) was published by @a_toots on May 17, 2026. In this one the UTK Freedom Rally performance of singer Jayme Knyx was altered. On May 19, 2026, Knyx posted a legal notice on X from his legal counsel (archived here), demanding The Owen Jones Show and Podcast remove the "defamatory altered content." The original performance of Knyx can be seen at 5 hours, 25 minutes, 59 seconds in the livestream on YouTube.
