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Casper (@caspertheghos7) — the ghost above Toronto.

She is the masked figure on the ledge in your feed — 162K followers, a face you've never fully seen, and a summer that put her in the middle of the biggest album rollout Toronto has ever staged. This is what the city looks like from where Casper stands.

Feature
Casper on the edge of the skyline — via @caspertheghos7 on Instagram (instagram.com/caspertheghos7). Image © the creator.
162K
Instagram followers
2
Skylines — Toronto & NYC
75
Projectors on the CN Tower
1
Official MXDVS collection

Instagram figure as of August 2026 (instagram.com/caspertheghos7). CN Tower campaign figures via CBC News coverage of the ICEMAN rollout. MXDVS "Casper Ghost" collection live at store.mxdvs.co.

Casper — @caspertheghos7 to the 162,000 people who follow her — is the most recognisable unrecognisable person in Toronto. The balaclava stays on. The name stays off the record. What you get instead is the view: tattooed legs hanging over a sixty-storey drop, the Chrysler Building at eye level, Toronto's grid glowing like circuitry underneath her. In a city that invented modern rooftopping, she has become its most magnetic current-generation face — precisely by never showing one.

The mystique is not an accident; it is the entire grammar of the account. Every frame is composed like a still from a heist film: the mask, the black fits, the impossible vantage. And people do not just watch — they ask. How does she get up there? Who lets her in? The honest answer, to the extent she'll give one, is the unglamorous one every serious rooftopper gives: research, patience, respect for the buildings, and a network of people who trust her. The doors themselves are the one thing she never talks about — and that silence is half the reason the internet can't look away.

The craft under the vertigo

Strip the adrenaline out and what's left is photography that holds up on its own. Casper's frames are built, not grabbed — leading lines from the ledge, the horizon set deliberately high, her own silhouette used as scale against the void. It's the same instinct that runs her second life as a tattoo artist under @casperthefriendlytattooer: linework, contrast, a steady hand in a situation where an unsteady one has consequences. The rooftop shots read as extreme content first, but the reason they travel is that they're simply excellent images. Brands noticed. Antwerp cult label MXDVS — the atelier behind the masks and armour-like streetwear her aesthetic practically wears as a uniform — now runs an official "Casper Ghost" collection for her community, with her own code at checkout.

Toronto invented rooftopping. Casper made the city look up again.

— The DGTL Influence view

The ICEMAN summer

On May 14, 2026, Drake froze the CN Tower — 75 projectors, a 300-person crew and a real-time 3D projection that turned the tallest structure in the country into a block of ice for the release of ICEMAN and its two companion albums. The stunt, covered everywhere from CBC News to TMZ, was the loudest moment Toronto's skyline has had in years. Inside that rollout came the moment Casper's followers had been waiting for without knowing it: she was cast in a video production for the campaign, staged at the top of the very tower she'd spent years photographing from a distance — this time with a call sheet, a crew, and Toronto image-maker @dearbish behind the camera. The city's most famous unauthorised skyline artist, brought up the legitimate way, to the one roof that towers over all the others. You could not script a better third act — which is exactly why DGTL is developing one around her.

Why Casper matters
  • She owns a genre in its home city — rooftopping began in Toronto, and @caspertheghos7 is its current-generation signature account, 162K followers strong.
  • The mask is the brand — anonymity turned into a durable creative identity, strong enough to carry an official MXDVS merchandise collection.
  • She crossed from subculture to mainstream production — cast in an ICEMAN-campaign shoot at the top of the CN Tower during the most-covered album rollout in the city's history.
  • She is the natural centre of "The Climb" — DGTL's documentary concept on Toronto rooftopping — as both subject and proof the story rates.

What comes next is the interesting part. Rooftopping content has a short half-life when it's only about the drop; Casper's version — masked, art-directed, quietly disciplined — is built to outlast the trend that made it. Between the tattoo practice, the MXDVS collection and a summer that ended with her name in the same sentence as the biggest artist her city has ever produced, @caspertheghos7 has already done the hard part: she became a story, not just a stunt. DGTL Influence is telling it.

162,000
Followers watching from the ground. Casper's Instagram audience as of August 2026 — grown with no face, no name, and no paid reach. Just the view.
The Work

The work — ledges, lenses, and one very tall tower

Campaign
ICEMAN rollout · 2026
The CN Tower shoot
Cast in a video production for the ICEMAN campaign, staged at the top of the CN Tower — the rollout that froze the skyline with 75 projectors and put Toronto at the centre of pop culture for a week.
Rooftop
New York · 2026
Chrysler Building, eye level
The July ledge series that ran up her feed — Manhattan's most famous crown, shot from beside it rather than beneath it.
Rooftop
Toronto · ongoing
The home-city ledge sits
The signature frames: masked, tattooed, sixty storeys of Toronto glowing underneath. The account's core canon.
Collab
MXDVS · live now
"Casper Ghost" collection
An official collection for her community from Antwerp atelier MXDVS — masks, armour-wear and the code GHOST20 at checkout.
Ink
Second practice
@casperthefriendlytattooer
The other steady hand — Casper's tattoo practice, where the same linework instincts run at street level.
In development
DGTL Original · doc concept
The Climb
DGTL's documentary concept on Toronto rooftopping — the city that started it, the people who risk it, and Casper as its central character.
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FAQ

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Who is Casper (@caspertheghos7)?
Casper is a Toronto-based rooftop photographer and content creator who posts under @caspertheghos7 on Instagram, where she has roughly 162,000 followers (as of August 2026). She is known for masked, high-altitude ledge photography shot above Toronto and New York, and separately works as a tattoo artist under @casperthefriendlytattooer.
Was caspertheghos7 involved in Drake's ICEMAN CN Tower moment?
Yes — during the May 2026 ICEMAN rollout, in which the CN Tower was covered in a 75-projector ice projection (as reported by CBC News and others), Casper was cast in a video production for the campaign staged at the top of the CN Tower, working with Toronto image-maker @dearbish on the shoot.
What is the MXDVS Casper Ghost collection?
Antwerp streetwear atelier MXDVS runs an official collection page called Casper Ghost — a curated offer for Casper's community at store.mxdvs.co, unlocked with the code GHOST20 at checkout. It's a natural pairing: MXDVS masks and technical pieces are practically the uniform of her visual identity.
What is The Climb?
The Climb is a documentary concept in development at DGTL, Toronto, about rooftopping — the photography subculture that began in Toronto — told through the people who define it today. Casper features as a central character. Read the companion pieces in the DGTL Influence Journal for the campaign story and the documentary treatment.
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