A man on TikTok is blowing up after sharing how a simple Solidcore vlog spiraled into a full-on mess—one that ended with him fighting with his best friend.
Anthony Festa (@anthonyrfesta), who lives in Connecticut, posted a new video walking people through the lore behind the Solidcore drama that’s been ricocheting around the internet. He says he wanted to lay out “the fallout” from his video and how it went from a quick post to a whole situation.
For anyone who missed the original clip, Festa recapped it in his follow-up. What started as an innocent video for his nearly 62,000 followers somehow turned into a feud he definitely didn’t expect. The explainer has since pulled in more than 2.1 million views.
Festa says he showed up to a 6am class, only to find the instructor nowhere to be seen. So he says he figured he’d vlog a bit.
“I thought it would be good content,” he says. He adds that he posted the video once class wrapped. The instructor eventually showed up halfway through.
After he left, Festa says the teacher started blowing up his social media, urging him to take down the clip.
“Mind you, this is Thanksgiving weekend Sunday,” he says. “I’m not answering anybody.”
His Friend Gets Involved
He says he ignored the messages—until his best friend, who knows the instructor through Solidcore, called and repeated the same plea.
Festa says his friend told him the instructor was worried she’d lose her job and pushed him to delete the video.
“‘It’s going to be a whole thing. You need to take this video down,’” Festa recalls being told.
He says he hung up, stunned that Solidcore staffers were now looping in his friends.
“’Since when are you Solidcore’s PR?’” he says he asked. The back-and-forth caused what he calls “a big rift in my friendship.”
He says the regional manager then called him twice and left a voicemail—which he ignored, too. The next day, after taking another class, he confronted one of the instructors who had reached out to his friend, telling her it wasn’t appropriate to drag them into drama about a video he posted. Festa says he was already irritated because the excuse was that he wasn’t answering the instructors directly.
“I’m the client. I’m paying to come here,” Festa says.
Festa says he eventually told Wynn to make sure her coaches stopped contacting his friends about his TikTok content. He adds that the “Solidcore girls have no boundaries” and jokes that “that’s definitely not happening at Equinox.”
By the end, he says he’d talked to the regional manager’s boss but still walked away with “a bad taste in his mouth.” He also insists there’s “no issue” with his initial video and that it’s “allowed to be up.”
“What really happened is someone didn’t show up to their job on time, I vlog … and these girls tried to cover their a—- and thought somehow I would take the fall,” he says.
Can A Business Force Me To Take Down A TikTok?
Short answer: Sometimes, but not just because they are annoyed. A business needs a real legal hook to make you remove a video from your own account. That usually means a copyright claim, a privacy issue, or something that crosses into defamation. What they cannot do is order you around without some enforceable right behind it.
Things change if you work for the company. As some workers claim they’ve found out the hard way, employers can set rules for how you use social media while you are on the clock or on company devices.
For everyone else, the rules shift. Filming inside a business or capturing customers who didn’t agree to be on camera can prompt a cease-and-desist or a formal takedown, especially if people are identifiable. Using a company’s logos, branded material, or music you don’t have rights to can get you in trouble. And if your video is inaccurate in a way that actually harms the business’s reputation, they can escalate it into something more serious.
You still have rights in all of this. A company can’t lift your video, your face, or your voice for its own marketing without your sign-off. And you can challenge them if they do.
That said, if a business doesn’t like your video and wants to take action, they’ll likely start with either flagging you on TikTok or reaching out directly. What happens next can depend on how far the company is willing to go. And as Festa showed, you can ignore the noise, try to resolve it—or, in more serious cases, bring in legal backup.
@anthonyrfesta The fallout from my solidcore video..@[solidcore] #solidcore
Viewers Side With Solidcore Customer
Many people who watched Festa’s video came down firmly on his side, echoing his point that the Solidcore staff seemed unprofessional for repeatedly trying to contact him and rope in his friends.
“It’s crazy bc solid core is not cheap- you’re paying for a high end class and this is how they treat you??” one viewer questioned.
“Don’t let big solidcore bully you,” another urged.
“Wow you’ve been to 1000+ classes and this is how you’re treated,” a third remarked. “You need to be compensated.”
“I feel like they should now get in trouble for harassing a client?” a fourth commenter suggested.
Others applauded Festa for showing up to another Solidcore class right after his run-in with the instructors.
“You going to solidcore the next day after being in a full blown feud with them is incredible,” one person noted.
“I am holleringgggg you taking a solidcore class in the middle of this is so funny,” another chimed in.
“The fact you went the next day,” a third wrote, followed by a skull emoji.
Festa responded to those reactions with a simple explanation: “I get my moneys worth.”
BroBible has reached out to Festa via TikTok direct message and to Solidcore through email.