The clip was also accused of editing out the catcalls of white

Shoshana Roberts says she was paid $200 to be filmed walking through the streets of Manhattan for 10 hours, with the resultant video of her being catcalled more than 100 times quickly going viral.

Now the 24-year-old aspiring actress has filed a lawsuit against the director of the clip and the advocacy group who came up with the idea of documenting street harassment, claiming they did not get her written permission to air the video before using it to cash in on advertising.

The two-minute footage received over 40 million hits and came under fire for racial bias, amid accusations the white men that made comments toward Roberts were edited out of the final product.

She is now seeking $500,000 for alleged violation of civil rights.

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'Violated': Shoshana Roberts was hit with a barrage of catcalls in her 10 hours being filmed silently walking around New York City for an anti-street harassment video to fight ‘everyday sexism’. Now she's suing the creators, saying they did not get her written permission to air the video and use her likeness

Unwanted attention: Shoshana Roberts, 24, who appeared in the video showing the cat-calling she experienced over a 10- hour period, was the subject to rape threats online after the video went viral

Roberts has now filed a lawsuit against director Rob Bliss and Hollaback! — the anti-street harassment advocacy group — for using her image to push their agenda

According to The New York Daily News, Roberts is suing director, Rob Bliss, and the anti-harassment group, Hollaback!.

The suit names Google, YouTube, and T.G.I. Friday's as co-defendants for making parodies of the video.

In the video, Roberts - wearing a black shirt and black jeans - endured a barrage of comments like: 'What's up, Beautiful?'; 'Smile!' and 'God bless you, Mami...'.

At one point, a man walks in step with her, silently, for five minutes.

The majority of men featured in the two-minute clip are black and Latino.

Following the clip's popularity after it aired on October 28, 2014, Roberts had multiple rape threats directed towards her.

Speaking about the experience of making the video, she told The Post at the time : 'I felt like crying and I have occurrences in my past of sexual assault, so I wasn’t even aware necessarily of all the times people were saying things to me.

'I was just going over in my head and reliving, unfortunately, these memories while I was walking. I wanted to break down in tears.'

Stalked: One man walked next to Roberts for five minutes as she walked through New York City streets

Bliss, who has not commented on the lawsuit, admitted in a Q&A session on Reddit at the time that a lot of white men were taken out in editing.

Sued: Director Rob Bliss (pictured) came under fire for apparent racial bias in his viral video

Bliss wrote: 'Honestly we did have a lot of white dudes in this video, but for whatever reason it worked out that they would be the ones to say something just in passing, or from a distance off camera. This made their screen time fairly short by comparison, but the numbers were relatively similar.

'As the video says at the end, it was upwards of 100+ harassments, so obviously not everything was shown, otherwise we'd have a video that's too long for internet attention spans. But really it was across the board, just about everyone said/did something while we filmed.'

The response to the director's remark drew heated responses.

Hollaback!, the organization which teamed with Bliss to promote the video, released a statement following the director's comments on the racial skew today.

In part, it read: 'First, we regret the unintended racial bias in the editing of the video that over represents men of color. Although we appreciate Rob’s support, we are committed to showing the complete picture. It is our hope and intention that this video will be the start of a series to demonstrate that the type of harassment we’re concerned about is directed toward women of all races and ethnicities and conducted by an equally diverse population of men.'

Roberts was subject to 108 instances of catcalling during the filming of the video. In the two-minute clip, the majority of cat-callers are black and Latino - this individual is one of the white men included

Emily May, executive director of Hollaback!, the anti-street harassment organization that put out the video, told The Washington Post: 'We’ve had a number of rape threats and violent threats against Shoshana and we’re pulling those down as quickly as possible, but they exist.

'That’s scary and I think what they’re trying to do is scare her and scare us into not speaking out about this. And both of us are saying no, we need to talk about this because if we don’t talk about this, if we don’t get this story out, then none of this is going to change.'

At no point did Roberts make eye contact with any of the men she passed or talk to any of them. That didn't stop the comments from coming.

When she didn't respond, one man told her: 'Somebody's acknowledging you for being beautiful. You should say thank you more!'

Roberts said the number of comments the day the video was shot was nothing out of the ordinary for her.

'The frequency is something alarming,' she added.