Ontario Tech seeks $50,000 in damages after Fiqueayubs videos cooking and playing with curry during lectures.
Fiqueayub has a history of controversial pranks and even clashing with the law because of them, so this one is just another chapter in his prank book, although it could become a really expensive one.
Fiqueayub Sued For Cooking Curry During Class
Ontario Tech University has filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Fique Ayub over two prank videos filmed on its campus. The prankster reportedly entered lecture halls without permission and interrupted classes.
One of the incidents in question involved a video filmed in October 2024. In it, Ayub places himself in a calculus class, puts on a chef outfit and starts to cook butter chicken on a portable gas cooker. Well, he actually cooks less than he just heats it up but anyways... He disrupts the class and starts his own show as the professor calls for backup and police. Of course, Fique does a fake indian accent the whole time.
One student even complains and says that they are paying so much money to hear the lecturer talk and Fique is just disrupting them, causing a scene for content. He even feeds students from his ladle. As he tries to feed the professor, the man threatenes to punch Ayub.
When his show was over, the prankster seemed dissapointed he didn't get escorted by security but just left voluntarily. Police did show up, but couldn't find him anymore as he was leaving.
After this incident, Ontario Tech 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.
Fique, however, wasn't done and returned to campus in October 2025, announcing that he would be teaching his own class, proceeding to throw curry around and talking in his fake accent again. Disrupting class and damaging property. In their claim, Ontario Tech University alleges that the content creator and his co-defendants were “unjustly enriched" by the videos filmed on campus.
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.
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The whole lecture hall was tense with some students finding the prank funny and entertaining and others finding it annying and disruptive. In the end, Fique left and ran from security.
This time, Ontario Tech reported the incident to police and proceeded with legal action. In court documents supporting its request for an injunction, the university stated that faculty members and students had complained about the pranks, and that the professor targeted during the second incident was left traumatized by the experience.
Ontario Tech is seeking at least $50,000 in punitive damages, as well as any revenue tied to the videos, arguing that Ayub profited from content created through unauthorized trespassing and the use of university property.
In November, Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Healey already granted an injunction prohibiting Ayub from entering the Ontario Tech campus and ordered him to pay $44,000 in legal costs.
Ayub himself denied the allegations claiming his videos are exaggerated, dramatized, edited and that the university is not entitled to his earnings from them. His statement of defense says:
Creating content is a hobby which he does with a bona fide intention of making his viewers happy and entertaining them. 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.
This is not the first time Ayub has been in trouble with the law for his pranks. In April he was arrested for shouting "Gun!" in a movie theater.
At this point, Fiqueayub may be one of the few people capable of turning a university lecture hall into both a cooking show and a courtroom exhibit at the same time. While his fans see chaotic comedy, Ontario Tech apparently sees thousands of dollars in damages, traumatized professors, and airborne butter chicken. One thing is certain though: this may be the first time in history someone risked a $50,000 lawsuit just to play “catch the curry.”
