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A university in Canada is taking legal action against a YouTube prankster previously arrested for yelling “gun” in a movie theater after he disrupted lectures by cooking curry in class and throwing it at students.
Ontario Tech University has filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Fique Ayub, also known online as FiqueAyub, over prank videos filmed on its Oshawa campus.
According to the National Post, the university claims Ayub entered lecture halls without permission and interrupted classes while filming content for YouTube.
One of the incidents took place in October 2024, when Ayub reportedly interrupted a lecture while using an exaggerated Indian accent and asking mocking questions before cooking curry on a portable stovetop hidden in his backpack.
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Ontario Tech said it initially held off on taking legal action, partly because it believed the prank may have been a one-off and feared responding could provoke more videos.
However, the university says Ayub returned in October 2025 for another stunt, interrupting a lecture by announcing he would be teaching his own class.
“During his so-called cooking class, Fique escalated his conduct by throwing curry at students and on the ceiling of the lecture hall as part of a game that he called ‘catch the curry,’ causing damage to Ontario Tech’s property,” the university said in its claim, according to the National Post.
The school also alleged tensions escalated between Ayub and students who wanted to continue learning, with the confrontation nearly turning violent. The professor claims the whole experience had been ‘traumatizing.’
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Ontario Tech is seeking at least $50,000 in punitive damages, along with income connected to the videos, arguing Ayub profited from content filmed through unauthorized trespass and use of university property.
In November, Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Healey granted an injunction barring Ayub from entering the Ontario Tech campus and ordered him to pay $44,000 in costs.
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Ayub denied the university’s allegations in a statement of defence, claiming his videos are exaggerated, dramatized, edited, and intended as satire or comedy. He also denied that the university is entitled to any proceeds from the videos.
According to the YouTuber, his channel is operated by an acquaintance of his who lives in Pakistan and is not operated for profit.
“Creating content is a hobby which he does with a bona fide intention of making his viewers happy and entertaining them,” his statement of defense says. “All content posted on fiqueayub is greatly exaggerated, dramatized, heavily edited, is not a true representation of real-world events, and is meant to be satirical and/or comical.”
These pranks aren’t the only content to have landed the creator in hot water. Earlier this year, he was arrested after he posted videos of himself and others yelling about someone with a gun in a movie theater.
This comes as more businesses and police are cracking down on creators who cause chaos for views.
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Notably, infamous streamer Johnny Somali was sentenced to prison with labor for his series of disruptive broadcasts in South Korea.
Elsewhere, Kick streamer Jack Doherty is facing up to 7 years behind bars after he blocked traffic while filming and was allegedly found to be in possession of a controlled substance.
Notorious TikTok prankster Heston James is also facing up to 20 years in prison for his videos, where he pretended to work at local businesses and filmed the disruption for content.
