Clemson bans popular TikTok creator after stadium trespassing incident
Given the unethical, dangerous, and otherwise questionable activities seen daily on social media, what Garrett Fedewa did one-day last fall seems almost trivial.
According to TheState.com, on Nov. 8, Fedewa, a popular TikTok creator known as GFed, toured Clemson’s Memorial Stadium. It was not a guided tour — Fedewa entered the stadium through an open door and walked around shooting video. He’s done it before at many other stadiums with his “Walk-On Challenge,” billing himself as “the internet’s stadium tour guide.”
This tour did not end well for Fedewa. Clemson University police issued him a formal trespass notice for entering the stadium without authorization, citing him for engaging in “suspicious activity.” He was not arrested, and left “without incident.”
He’s now banned from campus indefinitely.
Fedewa told TheState he understands police were only doing their job.
“They simply did what they were instructed to do,” Fedewa said. “We had a productive conversation off camera, and based on the information they gathered they gave me a trespass notice, which I thought was fair enough.”
On the surface, it’s a minor incident, handled according to the law, with no lasting animosity on either side’s part. On a deeper level, it raises questions about how far social media creators can go creating videos in public. Memorial Stadium is listed as a “publicly available facility” in university publications.
While Clemson dismissed Fedewa’s trespassing with the legal equivalent of a slap on the wrist, another school where he filmed a stadium tour took the matter more seriously. After Fedewa posted a tour of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium in November 2023, the university police issued three misdemeanor arrest warrants for “unlawfully” entering UGA property.
When Clemson contacted UGA while they talked with Fedewa, Georgia declined to have Fedewa arrested and extradited on those charges.
Fedewa has not posted his Clemson tour video but hopes to get “clearance” from the university.
“I really just feel more unlucky than anything, because this was the very last FBS campus in the lower 48 we haven’t been to. And of course, this happens,” Fedewa said in a video posted on X.
“To all my doubters out there, these videos are very real,” Fedewa continued. “We take very real chances every time we post. And … if you wanna try to do what I do, you’re gonna be taking on those exact same risks, too.”
