Disaster High School Graduate Has Diploma Withheld After Doing a Split on Stage During Ceremony - Girl twerks on an invisible dick during her HS graduation and is escorted out. Cries discrimination.

Tyvion Campbell eventually received her diploma, but not before she says she was escorted out of the auditorium.
By Sara Belcher
Published on June 4, 2026 03:00PM EDT
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One high school graduate's moment of celebration led to unexpected results.

In a video that's since gone viral on TikTok, Chicago Tech Academy student Tyvion Campbell is seen walking onto the stage at the Harold Washington Cultural Center during her graduation ceremony before she drops into a split. The video, which shows the moment from different angles, has racked up more than 835,000 views on TikTok.

Just one day after posting that video, Campbell returned to TikTok to claim she'd faced "discrimination" by the school when they did not hand over her diploma on that stage. In the follow-up video, which now has more than 2.3 million views, she claimed that she was scolded by school administrators for doing a split on stage.

"Now, a quick back story. I've been telling these people for weeks that I was gonna do a split on stage," she claimed. "It was not a surprise. They just thought I was joking, and that's the problem. Now, don't think I'm joking, because I'm not."

When she walked over to the person handing the graduates their diplomas, she said it was not handed to her.

"I honestly thought that they mixed up my name and didn't have my name in the right order. I didn't even think that she was purposely not trying to give me my diploma at first," she continued.

After being directed to sit down without her diploma, she was then escorted out of the auditorium to meet with the dean and the principal, Zataya Shackelford.

"She was beyond angry. Like, livid. It was genuine tears in her eyes, and her mouth was shaking. She was really, really, really, really upset," Campbell claimed of Shackelford. "And she's like, you need to figure out a way how you're gonna make up for this. Um, you're not getting your diploma until you figure out a way how you're gonna, um, make up for what you just did. And I'm like, wait, I have to figure that out, or do you have to figure that out?"

Campbell said the experience was "confusing" and she ultimately left the ceremony before it was over, unable to complete the tassel-turning portion of the ceremony as she was "really upset."

"We did receive rules, but the rules had nothing to do with what you can and cannot do while you walk across the stage," Campbell told Fox 32.

In a memo obtained by Fox 32 conveying rules to parents of graduates before the ceremony, Chicago Tech Academy warned parents not to bring helium balloons and instructed them on specific locations where they could park. Still, there were no memos about on-stage behavior.

In a video posted to TikTok on June 3, Campbell confirmed she had received her diploma from the school. The recent graduate is planning to attend Georgia State University in the fall, where she will study business administration.

PEOPLE reached out to Chicago Tech Academy for comment.

"I hope everyone stays true to themselves and never change for anybody," she told the news outlet.

 

[Toxic BRAAAAP Mask]

"We did receive rules, but the rules had nothing to do with what you can and cannot do while you walk across the stage,"

What part of WALK didn't you understand?
They're right to withold it if you can't read.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Girl twerks on an invisible dick

The school could argue she is encouraging sexual misconduct?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Social media wouldn't have been as bad if you still had to get to a computer to use it first

Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg: horsemen of the apocalypse?

And there was a time where there was "social media" but no "smartphones": back when "MySpace" was big, back in the '00s. But because one had to sit down at a computer to use it as you said, it didn't really transform the modern world like "Facebook" did in the 2010s. Now with sites like "TikTok", there is "influencers" or attention seekers doing stunts to try to be "internet famous" -- stunts such as that "ice bucket challenge" awhile back, eating Tide Pods, dancing to rap in public, or twerking at one's graduation.

 

[northstar747]

call me wrong but the gown covered everything. No booty no fowl as it is.

I remember some americas funniest home video knock off burling out a black dude waving his dick around at graduation.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

call me wrong but the gown covered everything. No booty no fowl as it is

Even so, there's still the showing off likely for internet fame.

As someone in the vid comments said, there's a time and a place.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

Well that diploma was a waste of effort.

No reputable employer will want to employ someone that thought her actions were a good idea, and even less so now she's claiming "racism".

Oh well, at least she's got a virus on her TikTwat , or whatever it is.

 

[WonderWino]

She graduated from UOAM? Ultima Online Auto-mapping?

If so if the schools slogan isn't In Por Ylem i'm going to be very disappointed

That said she's a fucking moron if she thinks this was a good idea, This is one of those things you really shouldn't need to be told not to do, its covered by common sense by anyone who understands what appropriate behavior is

 

[Elf Supremacist]

Remember that one kid who dressed up as Master Chief to receive his diploma?

No one had a problem with this.

First off, that's Noble Six.
Second, it was an ad aimed at college students to buy an xbox and laptop combo.

This isn't just teenagers doing stuff like this by the way. I cannot find it, but during the Biden era that one black marine did some weird step dance to get her promotion and made everyone wait on her. She was easily in her late 20s to early 30s. A lot of people called her stupid then got drowned out by "das raycis," so nothing was ever done to prevent it in the future. At least during Biden's presidency

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Graduation ceremonies are fucking stupid in the first place. There just another excuse for the "Popular" assholes to stroke their collective egos.

It's a coming of age milestone. You get to feel special, your parents get to take photos, you get to see your classmates one last time, and then once the pageantry is done you are thrown out into the cruel dark world ill prepared for what adventures await next. I think they are fine.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

What part of WALK didn't you understand?
They're right to withold it if you can't read.

Yeah, I see it as a social contract of some kind. Walk there, take the diploma, walk off stage. That's all. It will be the easiest thing you will ever be asked to do as an adult. Can you do it without fucking it all up?

 

[William Murderface]

I wouldn't have gone to mine if my parents hadn't absolutely insisted on it. Skip the gay pageantry and just mail me my accreditation.

I didn't even go to my college graduation. After all the money I had to spend on tutition and books and fees and whatever else, they wanted me to drop another hundred bucks on the cap and gown I would wear for an hour. Nope, not me. Just mail me my diploma.