ZDT NIGHTSHIFT DISSIPITATE, QUESTIONS, DOA FILMED KIDS [ZeroDarkTony] / October 18, 2026 / YouTube / h09EE6-FlQc
Update, Oct. 27, 2026: On Oct. 16, 2026, before this stream, Judge Holly L. Hancock-Goode granted Jarred Brooks’s ex parte application and changed the Oct. 1 requirement described below. Brooks no longer has to file or serve an income and expense declaration (form FL-150). Instead he gives his income and expense information to the court on a confidential form (FW-001). The order says that form is “for the Court’s review only,” stays out of the public file, and “shall not be served on Petitioner,” so D’Amato does not get a copy.
D’Amato also says he is glad he was “part of” Hochstetter’s ankle monitor and predicts Hochstetter’s critics will write letters to inmates about him.
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, made a series of statements during an October 18, 2026, YouTube livestream that included his account of sending videos to the LAPD, personal attacks on the family of Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, and extended commentary predicting that Hochstetter would be assaulted in jail. D’Amato streamed alone. A second voice heard in the clips is D’Amato’s own, used to mimic Hochstetter or to answer his chat. Legal fund: About 16 minutes in, D’Amato told viewers, “And let us not forget the ZDT Justice Fund. If you could drop the links in the chat, please Coco. We still got that going on. That could use a little bit of a kick.” His moderator Wild Coconuts then posted his Cash App and Venmo links. He did not say which case the fund is for; the ask came right after his remarks about Hochstetter’s criminal case. There is no public accounting of the fund. 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.
“He’s gonna get stuck, not just his ass kicked”
D’Amato opened the segment by saying he had sent videos to attorney Kendrick Moxon and the LAPD: “I absolutely 100 fucking percent sent videos to Kendrick Moxon to the LAPD.” He called that lawful and expressed satisfaction over Hochstetter’s criminal case, saying, “I know I’m so glad that I was part of him having that ankle manager, ankle monitor on.” He called flyers put up about Hochstetter “karma,” said Hochstetter now has to wonder “every day for months and months and months” whether he will go to prison, and declared, “My work here is done.” D’Amato then shifted to predicting that Hochstetter would be physically harmed once incarcerated. He described a specific type of prison injury called a “buck 50,” explaining on stream that it involves a sharp object drawn from the ear to the jaw requiring approximately 150 stitches to close. He stated, “When he gets to prison, he’s gonna get stuck, not just his ass kicked,” and added that “some of his enemies,” members of what he called “the MLH crowd,” would write letters to inmates informing them about Hochstetter. D’Amato said of himself: “if all those people are going to write those letters, I won’t. That’s not something that I would do. But I know that they are animalistic enough to do it, 100%.” When a viewer suggested a name for the injury, D’Amato agreed it would be “a facelift of sorts.”
Viewer @pyrexpgh wrote in chat, after D’Amato explained the “buck 50”:
I thought that was a prison facelift.
Exhibit A
D’Amato states, “I absolutely 100 fucking percent sent videos to Kendrick Moxon to the LAPD. Yes, I did. And that’s perfectly legal. It’s also legal to call the police, by the way.”
Timestamps: 00:18:53 – 00:22:12 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato says on stream that he sent video material to Kendrick Moxon and the LAPD, and calls it lawful. He also states satisfaction that Hochstetter “has to sit there every day for months and months and months wondering if he’s going to go to prison,” framing the legal pressure as partly his own doing. He showed none of the videos and gave no dates. He also calls Hochstetter’s mother “cross-eyed” and “inbred,” then answers his own imagined objection: “Oh, that’s defamation.” … “No, she’s cross-eyed and she looks inbred.” Hochstetter has not been convicted. 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 hate-crime vandalism counts were dismissed at the preliminary hearing on Aug. 8, 2025. His next date is a pretrial conference on Dec. 1, 2026.
In the same clip D’Amato repeats that “if we win this appeal, DOA is working for me right now.” The trial court denied D’Amato’s motion for attorney fees against Hochstetter, and no fees have been awarded. The appeal is pending. Seconds after the clip ends, he says “that’s how we got the RO on the respondent,” his name for Jarred Brooks, known online as Krackhead Kenny, and “The 29th is coming up for the for that legal fee hearing.” That date is correct. In D’Amato v. Brooks (26STRO01932), Judge Holly L. Hancock-Goode did not rule on his $23,197.40 fee request on Oct. 1. She ordered Brooks to file an income and expense declaration and continued the motion to Oct. 29.
Exhibit B
D’Amato tells “invisible” critics, “I’m going to hand your fucking ass to you in that court,” denies being a Scientologist or “OSA,” and tells Hochstetter, “Better hope I don’t have to show up in that court because because I’m bringing hell with me, bitch. And I mean paper. I can’t actually bring hell with me.” He says Hochstetter “is going to get the shit kicked out of him in that jail” and “When he gets to prison, he’s gonna get stuck, not just his ass kicked,” then explains the term “buck 50”: “That’s gonna be glorious.” … “I’m not wishing it on him. It’s just what’s going to happen.” … “Do I hope it happens? A little bit. But, man, those people are going to write letters and they’re going to find out about you, my boy.”
Timestamps: 00:22:54 – 00:30:52 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato predicts graphic violence against Hochstetter in jail, disavows any intent to contact inmates himself, but says he hopes “a little bit” that the violence happens and that others will write letters to inmates about Hochstetter. The prediction is his. Hochstetter has not been convicted or sentenced, and there is no prison term for anyone to serve. The “facelift” remark is D’Amato’s own, answering a viewer’s chat message; no co-host or guest appears on the stream. D’Amato says Hochstetter’s suggestion that he is a Scientologist is “malicious” and casts “a malignant and false light” on him.
Calling someone a Scientologist may be defamation if it is false, but it is not a crime. He named no court or case for the “invisible” critics he says he will beat “in that court.” Both exhibits are preserved in timestamped video and supported by the chat log from the October 18, 2026, broadcast. They run from D’Amato’s account of sending videos to the LAPD through extended commentary predicting, and in part hoping for, violence against Hochstetter.
Sources
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- Date: 2026-10-18
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · h09EE6-FlQc
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