ZDT LATE SHIFT SHAGGIN' WAGON, BORN TO LOSE, DOA FILMED KIDS [ZeroDarkTony] / October 17, 2026 / YouTube / UjFNMVbhyoE
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, delivered a series of warnings, legal predictions, and insults directed at absent individuals during an October 17, 2026, YouTube livestream. The stream included a warning to “stalkers” who might see him with his daughter, commentary on the pending court cases of Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, and extended name-calling aimed at Hochstetter.
The stream’s title, “DOA FILMED KIDS,” repeats D’Amato’s claim that Hochstetter filmed children. D’Amato has identified no court, case number or date for the restraining order he says resulted, and HNZ has found no such order. Near the end of this stream, about two and a half hours in, he said of the “taking pictures thing” that it was one “which i’m going to back off of,” that “we’re not going to be putting that in the title anymore,” and that “there wasn’t very much juice in that lemon.” The title of his next stream, later the same day, repeated the claim.
"If He Loses Any of Them with an Attorney, He Is Going to Be Paying All of Them for the Rest of His Life"
Roughly an hour into the broadcast, D’Amato turned to Hochstetter’s legal situation. He mostly called Hochstetter “he” and “him” in this stretch, but the surrounding remarks make the subject clear: minutes earlier he says “let me get back to Scott” before walking through how Hochstetter would be booked into county jail, and right after the Spanish passage described below he says, “See, Scott, fat fuck.” D’Amato acknowledged the limits of his knowledge before offering a prediction about court-ordered payments.
Later in the stream, D’Amato switched briefly into Spanish, then called Hochstetter a “fat fuck” and said, “I hope you smack your head in the wall,” adding that hearing him speak Spanish “is going to drive him absolutely freaking nuts.”
His chat joined in. While D’Amato described what Hochstetter should and should not say in jail, @annatheinnotz4901 wrote:
Scoot your persona should be mysterious, a loner
Three minutes later, at 07:54 UTC, the same account added that he should not “make up weird stories about yourself for attention,” which “all falls under ‘Talk less.’” “Scoots” is a nickname for Hochstetter in D’Amato’s chat. Earlier in the stream D’Amato asked a supporter he calls Coco whether “they call Scott Scoots,” and @ZenDark_WildCoconuts wrote that “scoots is so funny.”
Exhibit A
D’Amato tells viewers he will be at the Sherman Oaks Street Fair that Sunday, “flipping pies,” then warns: “If any of you fucks ever sees me with my daughter, you better keep fucking walking. That’s all I’m going to say. You understand me? You keep fucking walking, stalkers.” … “Won’t say that twice.” He adds that his daughter is “a black belt” who will “kick their ass,” and says, “don’t make me catch a case now.”
Timestamps: 00:45:00 – 00:48:40 | Watch with a free account
The warning is aimed at no named person. “Catch a case” is slang for being criminally charged. D’Amato says it about himself, just after warning people away from him and his daughter. In the minutes before the clip, he had been mocking Hochstetter for “weaponizing the court system.”
Exhibit B
D’Amato speculates about Hochstetter’s legal exposure. He begins, “You know, I really don’t know what’s going on with his cases, but it’s, if he loses any of them with an attorney, he is going to be paying all of them for the rest of his life.” Then: “Because they’ll get a judge, the judge will order it, and if he fucking tries to get around it, that’s federal time. That’s Fed time.”
Timestamps: 01:01:44 – 01:03:44 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato presents his analysis as speculation rather than established fact, explicitly disclaiming knowledge of the cases’ current status. He cited no case or law for “federal time.” The cases involving Hochstetter that HNZ has reported, his criminal case and D’Amato’s fee appeal, are in state court. In the criminal case, Hochstetter has pleaded not guilty to one assault count and five criminal threats counts, all allegations. In the fee dispute, the trial court denied D’Amato’s motion, and no fees have been awarded.
D’Amato knows court-ordered payment plans firsthand. In People v. Damato (24CJCM07073-01), he was ordered to pay $7,757.91 in restitution, and his payments were raised to $75 a month effective Sept. 1, 2026.
Taken together, the two clips document D’Amato warning unnamed “stalkers” away from him and his daughter and predicting lifelong court-ordered payments for Hochstetter, a prediction he prefaced by saying he did not know what was going on with Hochstetter’s cases.
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Text Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2026-10-17
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · UjFNMVbhyoE
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