“I Don’t Do Favors For Strangers” Is What the Influencer Said When a Woman Begged Him to Take Down the Up-Skirt Video, Right Before a Court Hit Him with $20,000

A woman who was lifted off her feet outside a Vancouver nightclub while drunk asked the streamer to take the footage down. He kept it up, reposted it after Meta pulled his accounts, and never said sorry.

A British Columbia tribunal ordered Canadian influencer and Kick streamer Sherif “Vibrophone” Elbishlawi to pay $20,000 for posting up-skirt videos of a woman to Instagram and Facebook without her consent.

Elbishlawi runs an Instagram account with more than 100,000 followers, built on videos of himself approaching women outside nightclubs in Vancouver and Las Vegas and convincing them to let him lift them into the air. When the women wear skirts, the stunt can expose their underwear to the camera.

According to a July 9 decision from the Civil Resolution Tribunal, the woman, identified as Z.D., agreed to be lifted while she was drunk. The footage showed her skirt being moved and lifted, partially exposing her buttocks and underwear, and one clip captured footage up her skirt.

The videos drew between 30,000 and 40,000 views before Meta removed them and deactivated his accounts. He uploaded them again from a new account.

Elbishlawi never apologized and argued the woman had consented, claiming he did not realize the footage qualified as intimate imagery. Tribunal member Maria Montgomery rejected that, noting Meta had taken the footage down twice.

“It appears [Elbishlawi] used the videos to gain social media exposure,” Montgomery wrote, adding that “the videos were potentially used to generate revenue.” She called the “possibly exploitative nature of this conduct troubling.”

Z.D. had sought $35,000 for mental distress, describing the humiliation of knowing acquaintances who followed him could see the videos and the anxiety of checking whether the footage would resurface. Montgomery awarded her $10,000 in compensation, $5,000 in aggravated damages and $5,000 in punitive damages.

The tribunal said his refusal to remove the footage, his choice to repost it and his lack of an apology “markedly departs from ordinary standards of decent behavior.”

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