ZeroDarkTony is live [ZeroDarkTony] / October 24, 2026 / YouTube / hQzh_oeKeko
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 solicits a link to an account he says is “soon-to-be-subpoenaed-and-sued” while naming a second person with “you’re going in the pool too.”
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, spent a substantial portion of an October 24, 2026 YouTube livestream naming individuals he stated he intends to sue or subpoena, describing in detail what he predicted would happen to Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, in jail, and telling his audience that participants in a rival chat are “open fucking season.” The stream also included extended commentary on paralegal-assisted court filings D’Amato said were nearly complete. He named no court and no case number for any of them. Legal fund: D’Amato did not ask for donations on this stream, but he talked about the money. About 29 minutes in he said “any funds that have been given to this channel, I will tell you 99.9 percent of them have gone to legal funds,” and later that he gets “more cash apps and venmos and pay pals” from viewers “who are trying to help me get through this.” He named no case and showed no accounting. Hero Not Zero’s Oct. 21 questions asked who controls the fund, how much it has raised and how earlier donations were spent; he has not answered.
“I Hope They Beat the Dog Shit Out of Him in There”
D’Amato opened the stream by framing ongoing criticism from a person he identified as “Becky” as a campaign of lies and false-light portrayal. He characterized himself as someone who would “always be okay” regardless of what “malignant pieces of shit try to sabotage,” and stated that the conduct would “bite you in your fucking asses.” From there, the stream moved into increasingly specific discussion of legal filings, named litigation targets, and a detailed prediction about jailhouse violence against Hochstetter, whom he refers to in that passage only as “he” and “him” after complaining about what “Scott said” about a call D’Amato made to the highway patrol. In the segment documented in Exhibit C, D’Amato said he hoped Hochstetter goes to prison and that “they beat the dog shit out of him in there,” calling it his “prediction.” He then described a scenario in which people “in that crew” would write letters to people in the jail telling them Hochstetter “filmed little kids,” and said “those southsiders are going to make him a target and so will the woods.”
D’Amato immediately followed that passage by saying, “I certainly ain’t going to do it because I wouldn’t want to be responsible for something like that.” After a pause, he said, “boxing and doxing, that’s all I want to do,” and turned to the lawsuits he says he is preparing: “I’ve almost got the filings done.”
Hero Not Zero has since learned that “boxing and doxing” is a line from a song someone wrote about D’Amato. He appears to have been repeating that lyric, not describing plans of his own.
The stream aired Saturday, Oct. 24, the day after his own Friday deadline for critics to “cooperate” with his announced John Doe lawsuit. Near the end of Exhibit E he says: “you didn’t listen about the cooperation rules but you know what they are i can’t force anyone to cooperate.” He did not say on this stream what those rules are. Hero Not Zero’s 12 written questions, emailed and posted Oct. 21, asked what “cooperate” means, whether the suit has been filed, and who his attorney is. He did not mention the questions on this stream and answered none of them. Outside the clips, he also said that “99.9 percent” of money given to the channel has gone to “legal funds”; he gave no accounting, which Hero Not Zero’s questions also asked for.
Exhibit A
D’Amato accuses a person he identifies as “Becky” of calling him a “freaking pdf” (his on-stream shorthand for pedophile) on her show, then characterizes his own counter-statements about her as things “I see is true,” saying the attempt to portray him as a bad person “is just not gonna fly.”
Timestamps: 00:16:58 – 00:18:51 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states that “trying to somehow portray me as a bad person or an evil person and painting false light and misinforming the public and trying to twist stories, that’s just not gonna fly.” He frames his own statements about Becky as his sincere view of what is true. He did not say what Becky’s alleged lies were or where they were posted. The clip establishes the grievance framing that recurs throughout the stream and precedes the naming of litigation targets in later segments.
Exhibit B
D’Amato applies the terms “pig” and “disgusting pervert” to Hochstetter, whom he names as DOA in this clip and claims received a restraining order for filming minors entering a portable restroom. Just before, he states: “And the people who live in that realm and in that universe they can have it because it’s always going to come back on them, they’re never going to have good things, they’ll always be alone…” He then says: “i never went and filmed little girls going into a porta potty right which is absolutely disgusting absolutely and and i didn’t really remember all the details of it but he got a restraining order for filming little girls.”
Timestamps: 00:43:09 – 00:46:45 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states the restraining order claim as fact, while conceding in the same breath that he “didn’t really remember all the details of it,” and uses it to anchor the dehumanizing characterizations. He has identified no court, case number, or date for any such order. He has said on earlier streams that he saw only “a piece of a clip that didn’t have any audio on it” and that he did not “really know” whether it was true. Hero Not Zero has found no such order. In the same clip he also says he “never went and choked out somebody”; the assault count against Hochstetter is an allegation, and he has pleaded not guilty.
There are court records that point to D’Amato choking his partner, declared in a sworn affidavit. D’Amato spent time in jail for the offense of corporal injury to a partner.
He also says in the same segment that “the legal consequences will be what they will be” and references subpoenaing people who “have to show up in court,” connecting the derogatory characterizations directly to his stated litigation posture.
Exhibit C
Speaking of Hochstetter, D’Amato states, “I hope he goes to prison, I hope he goes to prison and I hope they beat the dog shit out of him in there because that’s my prediction,” and goes on to describe a scenario in which people would write letters to the jail saying “he filmed little kids,” so that “those southsiders are going to make him a target,” adding: “he will not be safe anywhere and that’s just the fact of the matter and i certainly ain’t going to do it because i wouldn’t want to put some i wouldn’t want to be responsible for something like that.”
Timestamps: 00:47:41 – 00:52:22 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato frames the prison violence scenario explicitly as a prediction and expressly disclaims personal involvement in the same breath. He also calls it “the fact of the matter.” Hochstetter has not been convicted of anything. 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, and has pleaded not guilty. Five hate-crime vandalism counts were dismissed Aug. 8, 2025. His next court date is a pretrial conference on Dec. 1, 2026. The “filmed little kids” claim that D’Amato expects inmates to hear is the same unverified allegation from Exhibit B. He references the Ralph Act and Bane Act by name, stating they “have a three-year window with really serious fines,” and says the people he is targeting “forgot” what they posted because they assumed nothing would happen to them. He cited no code section for that deadline. Defamation claims in California must be filed within one year of publication. The Ralph Act covers violence or threats of violence based on traits like race or sexual orientation; he did not say which trait or what threat applies.
Exhibit D
D’Amato asks Coco, his moderator Wild Coconuts, “Coco, can you please send me the link for Schatze Page? Because they’re getting subpoenaed for posting my hospital information.” He adds that he “heard that last night for the first time.” He then addresses a second named individual: “Jen DeLeon, you’re going in the pool too, bitch.”
Timestamps: 00:53:00 – 00:54:55 | Watch with a free account
He says “some of you are not going to be sued, but some of you are going to be called as witnesses.” A subpoena requires a pending case; he named none. A prior subpoena effort by D’Amato, aimed at Hero Light Cody, was quashed, and the court imposed sanctions on the attorney who pursued it. D’Amato closes the segment by addressing audience members in the respondent’s chat directly: “With the evidence that I have about the respondent, anyone in that chat, you’re open fucking season.” The clip documents D’Amato soliciting a link to Schatze’s channel on stream, naming Jen DeLeon as an additional litigation target, and applying the “open fucking season” characterization to a defined group of people. “The respondent” is Jarred Brooks, known online as Krackhead Kenny, the respondent in D’Amato’s civil harassment case against him.
Exhibit E
D’Amato names Eric Levi as a lawsuit defendant for “posting my information” disclosing his hospital location, saying, “Eric Levi will be on one of those lawsuits for posting my information as well, these scumbags who posted where I was in the hospital.”
Timestamps: 00:55:53 – 01:02:06 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato also states in this segment that the respondent “is likely to have to pay twenty three thousand dollars,” that he intends to add “Johnny Bravo” to a lawsuit with “Jarred,” meaning Brooks, and that anyone who has “tried to invade my privacy and fuck up my money” has “papers coming.” He says he intends to “pull you into that courtroom and I’m gonna show the fucking world who you are.” No fees have been awarded against Brooks. D’Amato asked for $23,197.40; on Oct. 1, 2026, Judge Holly L. Hancock-Goode did not rule, ordered Brooks to file an income and expense form by Oct. 24, and continued the motion to Oct. 29.
Across five clips from the October 24, 2026 stream, D’Amato named at least four individuals as litigation or subpoena targets, solicited a chatter’s help locating a fifth person’s page, and stated that participants in a rival audience are “open fucking season,” with filings he described as nearly complete under the Ralph Act and Bane Act.
Correction, Nov. 2, 2026: An earlier version of this article said D’Amato did not explain the phrase “boxing and doxing” and quoted an online definition of “boxing” as a harassment tactic. The phrase comes from a song written about him. The definition has been removed.
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- Date: 2026-10-24
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