Destinee Stark, a 31-year-old activist in Ohio, has also gained massive popularity for TikTok videos in which she researches the images Aldean used to depict big-city violence — several of which she discovered originate outside the United States.

Stark traced a clip that appears early in the music video — of a woman flipping off a line of armored police — to footage of a 2017 demonstration in Berlin. A clip of someone jumping on a destroyed car while a nearby police car burns appeared to have been taken during a Group of 20 summit in Toronto in 2010. Footage of protesters pulling on a gate held by police and a clip of people guarding themselves with a green gate are both from political protests in Ukraine.

“It’s very clear from the American flag [draped over the courthouse behind Aldean in the music video] … he’s talking about American small towns. So why is it relevant to use protest footage from other countries such as Ukraine, Germany?” she told The Washington Post.

Other images in the music video are from the United States, including the now-deleted news segments from Atlanta and a bird’s-eye shot of a small, isolated fire in a crosswalk, which is advertised on Shutterstock as originating from New York in 2020, during a riot provoked by the police killing of George Floyd.

His fans are “consuming all these images of what they think are likely BLM protests of people throwing molotov cocktails and setting things on fire and burning cities down,” she said. “They have a right to know if that’s not accurate.”