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The defense followed a compilation video published by a rival channel that assembled the statements he was disputing.
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, devoted a significant portion of a July 22, 2026 YouTube livestream to defending earlier statements he had made on stream. He argued that none of those statements constituted a legal threat. The stream also included a vague insinuation about a named individual allegedly conversing with someone described as young. The earlier statements D’Amato was responding to appear to be drawn from a compilation video published by Scott Hochstetter on his YouTube channel The Lord of the Gadflies, viewable at youtube.com/watch?v=JNjqorZMklk. That compilation includes, among other statements attributed to D’Amato: “Don’t come to my fucking door… Because if you ever do, I will pull that blonde hair into a fucking door and I will smash the fucking door on your fucking head,” directed at LaraFM, as well as “I hope your mother gets raped and killed,” directed Hochstetter. D’Amato’s July 22 stream was, based on the transcript, a direct response to that video and the characterization of those remarks as threats.
“A Threat Is I’m Going to Do This to This Person That’s Here at This Place”
On stream, D’Amato offered his own definition of what constitutes a threat and argued his previous statements did not satisfy it. He claimed he had caught himself before completing whatever he was about to say. Later in the same broadcast, he made a comment about a named individual, Boss, allegedly having conversed with family members he described as “a bit young,” while stating he himself was not going to say anything further about it.
Exhibit A
D’Amato addresses his audience directly and says: “as everyone can clearly hear I made no threat whatsoever. I did not make any threat. A threat is I’m going to do this to this person that’s here at this place, you know what I mean. That’s what a threat is. I just teed off and I stopped myself. I did stop myself.”
Timestamps: 00:22:36 – 00:24:32 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato articulates a specific legal threshold for what he says a threat requires, then argues his prior statements fell short of it because he stopped himself mid-statement. The clip captures him asserting self-restraint while acknowledging he had “teed off.” That self-characterization is on the record alongside the statements from the earlier compilation he was defending.
Exhibit B
D’Amato says: “I’m not going to say anything but I’m sure that Boss will do two hours on the fact that he was conversing with someone’s, uh, family members that seemed a bit young.”
Timestamps: 00:35:52 – 00:38:03 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato frames the remark as something he is declining to develop further, while still surfacing the insinuation on stream to his audience. No specific evidence or detail is provided to support the implication. The statement is unsubstantiated as broadcast. Taken together, the July 22 stream establishes D’Amato on the record denying that prior statements, including the remark directed at Lara in the Lord of the Gadflies compilation, met the legal standard for threats, while also introducing a new unsubstantiated insinuation about Boss during the same broadcast.
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- Date: 2026-07-22
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · ELyu8xa3hdg
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