ZDT CHILLSTREAM KNIGHT OF CLARITY, THERAPY, CLOUDS [ZeroDarkTony] / October 13, 2026 / YouTube / XXQl0ej2yLM
D’Amato says he had permission to share the number, then lays out a Ralph Act lawsuit he later calls “pure fantasy” and “part of the trolling.”
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, spent portions of an October 13, 2026, YouTube livestream insulting individuals he referred to as Dodge and Jenna, describing a past confrontation in which he said he had restrained himself from physical action, and reading out what he described as the house number of a friend, a dare aimed at the critics he calls “goons.” The stream also included an extended segment on California’s Ralph Act and the civil penalties he said a lawsuit could bring, which he then told viewers was “part of the trolling.” Legal fund: About 24 minutes in, right after thanking Wild Coconuts for five gifted memberships, D’Amato asked his moderator to “drop the links for the Venmo and the Cash App.” Wild Coconuts posted his Cash App and Venmo links in chat under a scales-of-justice emoji. He did not say which case the money was for. There is no public accounting of the fund.
“If I did what I wanted to do that day, I would have gone to jail and they would have gone to the fucking hospital”
D’Amato opened the relevant portion of the stream by calling an individual he identified as Dodge “a terrorist” and recounting what he described as a protest confrontation involving an 80-year-old woman he identified earlier in the stream as his mother, a person with a pistol, and several other demonstrators. He framed Dodge and Jenna as bystanders who he claimed laughed and filmed rather than intervened, and said their aim was to get him to “swing on somebody” while he was “on bond.” Early in the stream he had warned Dodge, “Hey, buddy, the next couple of weeks ain’t going to be very funny for you.” D’Amato then said he had consciously chosen not to act physically because he could see the situation developing and did not want to fall into a trap. Later in the stream, D’Amato said he was going to “give the goons a little project,” his name for critics he says comb his streams for clues, and read out a number he said belonged to a friend’s house. He repeated it several times, once with a different last digit, and told the goons to “come and get it.” He stated he had permission to share the number, declined to give the street name, and feigned uncertainty about the county. He then imagined the goons’ reaction aloud, including a reference to swatting.
Exhibit A
D’Amato calls Dodge “a terrorist” and states that if he had acted as he wanted to during the confrontation, “they would have gone to the fucking hospital.”
Timestamps: 00:12:15 – 00:15:32 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato frames his restraint as strategic rather than principled: “I saw coming from a mile away as soon as I saw that fucking idiot walk up to me and I said don’t follow me, get away from me.” The violent counterfactual (“if I did what I wanted to do that day”) is stated as his own assessment of what would have happened, not as a forward-looking threat. In the same clip he tells Dodge, “I dare you to put your fucking hands on me.” The clip establishes D’Amato’s characterization of Dodge and Jenna as adversaries he holds responsible for the confrontation.
Exhibit B
After mocking a critic he calls “Slop” and that man’s family, D’Amato states, “when I get my court stuff together, they will rue the day that they did something so stupid,” and references two individuals he claims suffered consequences analogous to what they sought to impose on him.
Timestamps: 00:16:14 – 00:19:23 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato’s stated mechanism is litigation, not direct action: “when I get my court stuff together.” He cites individuals he calls Clearwater and Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, as prior examples of opponents who he claims ended up facing the outcomes they intended for him. The clip is a litigation preview, not a directive to the audience. He said Clearwater “went to jail, has a criminal record now.” He named no court or case number. Hochstetter has not been convicted of anything. In People v. Hochstetter (25CJCF01106-01), he faces one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and five counts of criminal threats, all dated Feb. 16, 2024. He has pleaded not guilty, and the charges are allegations. Five counts of vandalism of religious property as a hate crime were dismissed at his preliminary hearing on Aug. 8, 2025. The “court stuff” was not specified. About eight minutes after this clip, D’Amato said he hoped he would not “have to put together a counter-complaint for anything.” He named no case he had filed.
Exhibit C
D’Amato says critics searched Zillow for his addresses and that “some of them posted driving by some of my addresses and things like that.”
Timestamps: 00:31:50 – 00:33:47 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato describes this conduct against himself as part of a pattern he frames as harassment, attributing address-hunting and drive-bys to opponents he describes as believing they are “steering the boat.” D’Amato said on stream that address searches and drive-bys had been used against him in this conflict. He showed no such posts. At about the same moment, his moderator Wild Coconuts wrote in the chat, “I watched these crazies search all of Zillow LA for Tony’s living room pillar.” The clip comes about eight minutes before the segment in which he reads out a house number himself.
Exhibit D
D’Amato announces, “I’m going to give the goons a little project,” then repeats a five-digit house number several times (once with a different last digit), tells the goons to “come get it,” and imagines their response aloud: “Oh, let’s get him. Let’s find him. Let’s swat him.”
Timestamps: 00:41:42 – 00:48:28 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states he had permission to share the number and withholds the street name and county, framing the partial information as a puzzle: “But there’s a lot of counties with a lot of addresses.” He adds, “But it’s real dark at night And he has night vision,” a warning to anyone who comes looking. The swatting line is D’Amato voicing the critics he calls goons, followed by “Well, they do.” He named no one and offered no evidence that anyone had tried to swat him. He framed the number as a decoy: “So between the noises on the table and the number, that should keep them busy for a little while.” About 12 minutes earlier he had described his approach: “I don’t troll. I run psyops. Troll ops,” saying he sometimes wants critics “to go on a wild fucking goose chase for a couple weeks and waste their time.” In chat, his moderator Wild Coconuts posted a five-digit number, then “King county,” then “I just making shit up.” Even so, by his own account the number is real and belongs to a friend’s home, and he told hostile critics to “come get it.” D’Amato closes the segment by shifting topic, stating the “Knight issue” is over and that nothing criminal came of it.
Exhibit E
D’Amato walks through California’s Ralph Act, telling viewers that each person found liable faces a mandatory $25,000 civil penalty, and states, “We have lots of threats recorded, don’t we, Coco?” Coco appears to be his moderator Wild Coconuts: earlier in the stream he thanked “Coco” for five gift memberships at the moment the chat log shows Wild Coconuts sending five.
Timestamps: 01:20:49 – 01:24:22 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato claims to have recorded evidence of “group intimidation threats” including a drone flown outside his home, and states that discovery will yield additional evidence. He describes the $25,000 per-person mandatory civil penalty and the trebling of actual damages as the financial stakes facing anyone found liable under the statute. The clip documents D’Amato’s on-stream legal theory and his stated evidentiary basis for a potential Ralph Act suit. He showed none of the recordings.
He said Hochstetter had mentioned the Ralph Act first, and D’Amato framed his version as a counter-complaint against “those connected that never show their faces.” The Ralph Act (Civil Code section 51.7, with penalties in section 52(b)) covers violence or threats of violence based on traits such as race or sexual orientation. A penalty requires a court to find such violence or a threat, and a civil defendant is found liable, not “guilty.” He said “What they did are hate crimes” but described no violence or threat beyond a drone. Calling him a Scientologist, the label he elsewhere calls a hate crime, is speech; California’s hate crime law does not reach speech alone unless it threatens violence against a specific person or group (Penal Code section 422.6(c)).
He did not name the statute he says triples actual damages. Less than two minutes after the clip ends, he said the statute of limitations on the Ralph Act is “three years motherfucker and I got you,” then told viewers, “That’s part of the trolling part, okay? Just so you know. … I’m just fucking around.” Just before that he had said, “right now it’s pure fantasy,” and soon after he described himself as “coming up with a complete scenario about something that likely will never happen and that I don’t want to do.”
The same $25,000-per-person figure resurfaced in the John Doe lawsuit he announced later in October. On Oct. 21, HNZ emailed him and publicly posted questions, including whether that “mandated fine” referred to the Ralph Act and what violence or threat he was alleging. As of HNZ’s review of his streams, he has not answered. These five clips, taken together, establish an October 13, 2026, stream in which D’Amato characterized opponents as terrorists and cowards, described a past confrontation in violent hypothetical terms, read out a partial residential address while daring critics to locate the property, and outlined a civil lawsuit he then called trolling and “pure fantasy.”
Sources
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- Date: 2026-10-13
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · XXQl0ej2yLM
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