A YouTuber known as Fique Wamiq Ayub is now facing a lawsuit that could cost him well over $100,000 after pulling the same prank at a Canadian university twice.
In October 2024, Fique walked into a lecture hall at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, pulled out a portable stove, and began cooking curry in the middle of an ongoing class. He screamed in a fake accent, walked around trying to get students and the professor to taste the food, and filmed everything for his YouTube channel under the title “Cooking Curry During College Lecture.”
When the professor eventually left the room to find help, Fique ran off.
That first video was not what triggered the lawsuit. What did was Fique returning to the same campus in October 2025 and doing the same thing again, this time far more aggressively. He disrupted multiple classes, threw food on walls, floors, and ceilings, and threw food onto students. He also got into multiple verbal and near-physical confrontations with students who were unhappy about having their paid-for class time interrupted.
That second video is what prompted the university to take legal action.
By November 2025, an injunction had been granted, barring Fique from the campus and ordering him to pay $44,000. The university is also pursuing at least $50,000 in punitive damages, along with a separate award tied directly to the income Fique earned from the videos.
Fique’s legal team has responded with a defense that many find unconvincing. They claim the YouTube channel is operated by an acquaintance living in Pakistan and that the channel is “not operated for profit nor has that ever been the intended purpose.”
They describe the content as “greatly exaggerated, dramatized, heavily edited, and not a true representation of real world events, and meant to be satirical and or comical.” Fique’s team also argues the university “manufactured its own losses” by waiting too long to act, though the university filed for an injunction within one month of the second video going up.
Both videos are over eight minutes long and have a combined total of around 15 million views. Assuming no monetization restrictions were placed on either video, that level of viewership could translate to somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 in ad revenue, making the university’s push for a share of that income a significant part of the damages being sought.
