Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Woman Kicking Cyclist Harassing Pedestrians -- It Comes From AI Content Channel

Fact Check

  • by: Sarah Thompson
Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Woman Kicking Cyclist Harassing Pedestrians -- It Comes From AI Content Channel Made With AI

Does a real video show a woman deliver a kick to an annoying "biker" who had been harassing pedestrians? No, that's not true: The video originated from a YouTube channel that says, "All videos on Beyond Reality AI are AI-generated and created for entertainment." The content detection platform Sightengine gave a frame-level rating of 99% likely to be AI-generated to part of the clip, while the video-level results rated the video at 34% -- not likely to be AI-generated.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @Keithhambone account on X on Nov. 2, 2026. It read:

This woman gives an annoying biker some good medicine! 😍😍😍

This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like at the time of writing:

kickthumbnail.jpg

(Image source: post by @Keithhambone on X.)

A reverse image search with Google Lens (archived here) pointed to many duplicate copies of the video, most on X. One video (archived here) was posted on YouTube on Oct. 27, 2026, by @beyondrealityAI-o9q (channel archived here). The Beyond Reality AI account bio reads:

Welcome to Beyond Reality AI. We're fascinated by what AI can create. We turn ideas into stories, from cinematic moments and imaginative "what if" scenarios to creative scenes inspired by everyday life. Every video on this channel is an original AI-generated work of fiction created for entertainment and creative exploration. Got an idea you'd love to see brought to life? Leave it in the comments. We'd love to hear it, and your idea could inspire one of our next videos.

Most of our content is created in the YouTube shorts format and is best experienced as shorts.

Disclaimer: All videos on Beyond Reality AI are AI-generated and created for entertainment and creative storytelling only. They are not real events, do not copy, edit, or redistribute these videos in a way that may mislead others or present them as genuine footage.

The Beyond Reality AI account has posted several video shorts with this theme, one example (archived here) shows people in black sweatsuits with their faces obscured, riding recklessly on e-scooters, intimidating pedestrians. The second half of the video shows a montage of five different scenes of women fighting back with action-movie-style flying kicks. Other videos show these villains on e-scooters and motorbikes snatching phones from distracted people on the street.

The clip shows a woman kicking a cyclist, with a small inset showing a rider harassing pedestrians. The cyclist who was kicked was not wearing gloves, was riding a road-style bicycle with dropped handlebars, no exposed cables, and no fenders. The small inset video shows a person in black with black gloves who was harassing pedestrians. They were on some sort of cycle, but it appears to be an e-bike. The handlebars are straight and have exposed cables. The top tube is thicker than a typical bicycle frame and the fendered front wheel appears smaller than road bike wheels. The rider is never shown pedaling although they maintained speed and popped wheelies with their feet on unmoving pedals. The two videos do not show the same rider or bike.

Lead Stories uploaded the clip to Sightengine where the AI-generated content detection tool returned mixed readings (archived here). Sightengine's frame-level analysis rated part of the clip 99% likely to be AI-generated (pictured below) but other points in the video dropped as low as 0% likely. Overall the video-level results rated the video at 34% -- not likely to be AI-generated.

sightenginekick.jpg

(Image source: Sightengine.)

There are several glitches in the video typical of AI-generated content. The sign for the Underground has malformed letters and the letters painted on the road do not make real words. In the background is a steady stream of evenly spaced black London taxicabs coming around a bend in the road. It is common for people and cars in the background of AI-generated videos to be rendered as generic types. One car bringing up the rear (marked with yellow boxes below) appears to have the styling of a sports car. It is momentarily obscured and when it comes back into view it has begun to take on the shape of the taxicabs.

cabscomposite.jpg

(Image source: Lead Stories composite image with screenshots from post by @beyondrealityAI-o9q on YouTube.)

Want to inform others about the accuracy of this story?

See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:


  Sarah Thompson

Sarah Thompson lives with her family and pets on a small farm in Indiana. She founded a Facebook page and a blog called “Exploiting the Niche” in 2017 to help others learn about manipulative tactics and avoid scams on social media. Since then she has collaborated with journalists in the USA, Canada and Australia and since December 2019 she works as a Social Media Authenticity Analyst at Lead Stories.


 

Read more about or contact Sarah Thompson

About Us

EFCSN International Fact-Checking Organization

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Lead Stories is a:


Subscribe to our newsletter

* indicates required

Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Lead Stories LLC:

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website.

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

Google Preferred Source

Get more fact-checks in your Google Search results by setting up leadstories.com as one of your preferred sources.

Most Read

Most Recent

Share your opinion