ZeroDarkTony is live [ZeroDarkTony] / October 31, 2026 / YouTube / FshvYpAtBYg
He also talks about questioning the man under oath, his calls to police, and the cease-and-desist letter.
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, spent much of an October 31, 2026 YouTube livestream on a critic he does not name in these clips. The details he gave, a broken-down RV and a pending criminal case, match Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, and about 17 minutes in D’Amato said, “You’re stupid, Scott.” D’Amato said he has the evidence to file a case against the man but showed no filing or evidence on stream."I wouldn't be surprised if there might be a bail revocation hearing coming up for him."
D’Amato said he would not file anything until he had “all my ducks in a row,” and that he does. He accused the critic of “targeted harassment” for “monetary gain” and said he has “absolute proof.” He said the man had brushed off his claim that his privacy and safety were compromised, and he answered: “I’m gonna prove it.” He also said, “ZDT the God is not my email, and I have abandoned the other email.” The cease-and-desist letter Hero Not Zero received on October 28 was sent from that address. Later, D’Amato said the critic “only got two questions out” when questioning him at an earlier hearing and that “the judge even thought he was an idiot.” He mocked the man for “analyzing my uh cease and desist” and said that because he “did not want to cease and desist,” “we’ll go from there.” He defended sending videos to an attorney for an organization he says the man is “terrorizing” and calling police on him. “That’s not swatting,” he said, calling the swatting claim “defamation” and “slander.”Exhibit A
D’Amato tells his audience he will only act once fully prepared: “If I don’t have all of it, and all my ducks in a row going in, I’m not gonna file it. But I have all my ducks in a row, fatass.” He also states, “That is not my email. ZDT the God is not my email, and I have abandoned the other email.”Timestamps: 00:01:06 – 00:03:03 | Watch with a free account
The “fatass” remark is aimed at the critic. D’Amato did not say what he would file or where.Exhibit B
D’Amato claims the target’s ongoing broadcasting constitutes a legal wrong: “I’m gonna prove it. So you could sit there with your fat fucking dumb ass, okay, who is failing on a daily basis and think that you’re smarter than me, but you’re not.” He then states, “It is called targeted harassment. That is what he is doing to give himself some kind of monetary gain. And I have absolute proof of that.” He adds, “I wouldn’t be surprised if there might be a bail revocation hearing coming up for him.”Timestamps: 00:06:43 – 00:09:56 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato did not say what his “absolute proof” is. The bail revocation remark is his prediction; he did not cite any motion or hearing.Exhibit C
D’Amato suggests the critic could be in prison in five years, then jokes about sending him a gift: “And five years from now, if you’re not sitting in a fucking prison cell getting your face caved in. And don’t think I’m not gonna send you a big old basket in that jail… I’m just joking.” He then turns to court: “It’s all gonna come out when you’re under oath and you gotta answer my questions. Right? Now maybe a lawyer will be asking them. Or what would be even worse would be for me to be asking them.”Timestamps: 00:12:43 – 00:16:10 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato calls the gift remark a joke. The rest of the clip is about questioning the man under oath, through a lawyer or himself.Exhibit D
D’Amato defends his calls to police and the videos he sent to an attorney: “There’s nothing wrong with me sending videos to an attorney for an organization that he’s terrorizing. There’s nothing wrong with me calling the police. That’s not swatting.” He calls the critic’s swatting claim “defamation,” “slander,” and “so many fucking things.”Timestamps: 00:16:54 – 00:18:48 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato also says the critic’s channel descriptions malign him over “things that were never proven,” which he says were “expunged and dismissed years ago,” and that he will tie this to “a malicious act” in court. The expungement is his claim; Hero Not Zero has not verified it. He says discovery “does go both ways, but there’s nothing on my end.”Exhibit E
D’Amato tells the critic not to delete a post: “I wouldn’t delete that if I were you, my man. That’s evidence. Literally using the words agents of Scientology with a post that has my fucking name on it.” He adds, “I have a thousand times more evidence against this clown than I had against Jared. And, you know, my opinion is that he’s actually helping Jared with his court stuff. That’s just my opinion.”Timestamps: 00:20:12 – 00:22:07 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato calls the claim that the critic is helping Jared his opinion. He did not show the evidence he says he has. As of this stream, D’Amato had described evidence and a planned case but had not shown a filing. Related: “You Have Been Served”: ZeroDarkTony Sent Hero Not Zero a Cease-and-Desist Letter. Its File Says ChatGPT Made It.Sources
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- Date: 2026-10-31
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