A Montreal zipline business has filed a police report and hired a lawyer after paying a content creator $300 CAD to remove a viral video that falsely suggested someone had become stranded.
Halifax creator Lovepreet Singh was visiting Montreal’s Old Port with his family when he spotted an employee traveling backwards along the Tyrolienne MTL Zipline.
Believing the man was stuck, Singh began recording and uploaded the footage to TikTok and Instagram as “an incident on the zipline.”
However, no emergency had taken place. The employee had finished his shift and was completing a voluntary challenge that involved riding to the end of the zipline before pulling himself back up the cable.
According to CTV News, Singh’s post attracted one million views in just 24 hours, making it his most successful video.
Tyrolienne MTL Zipline president Samuel Cadotte said the clip sparked comments from viewers who claimed they would never visit the attraction.
ScreenshotZipline owner files police report after paying creator $300
Cadotte contacted Singh and asked him to remove the video or clarify that nobody had been stuck. Singh reportedly requested $200 to delete the post or $400 to upload a correction.
Texts between the two show Cadotte accusing the influencer of “taking advantage” of him.
“I guess we are done talking here, I have other clients messaging me for business promotion, I might just give my time there,” Singh remarked.
The two eventually agreed to a $300 deal covering both. Singh removed the original and uploaded another video explaining what happened.
“It was not an incident, guys,” Singh said in the follow-up. “Yes, the owner himself reached out to me.”
Cadotte has since filed a police report and hired a lawyer. He said the company felt it had no choice but to pay because the clip was spreading during summer, when the attraction earns much of its yearly revenue.
“I will leave it to the authorities to determine the appropriate classification,” he said. “We’re not asking a content creator to remove a post simply because we don’t like it. We’re only asking for a minimum of cooperation when information is proven to be false. Correcting it, adding the proper context or, if necessary, removing the post seems to me to be a matter of responsibility and respect.”
Singh denied that his demand amounted to extortion and argued that removing the video would cost him income.
“This is not extortion. This is my business,” he told CTV. “I never said do not go to that zipline because that zipline had an incident.”
It comes as businesses and people in Canada increasingly turn to the courts over influencer content. Ontario Tech University recently sued a YouTuber accused of disrupting lectures, while another Canadian influencer was ordered to pay $20,000 after refusing to remove up-skirt videos.
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