“I’m Just Going to Put an Embargo On It”: Vague Threats Against Unnamed “Chatters” Punctuate Rambling Stream
Some streams are hard to summarize because a lot happens. This one is hard to summarize because almost nothing is actually said. Across a manic stretch that moves from sockpuppet accusations to sitcom theme song trivia to a step-by-step account of making cultured butter to a reading of a sandwich history list, ZeroDarkTony announces randomly not once but twice that he is placing an “embargo” on discussing certain people. He never names them. He never says what the underlying issue is. At one point he tells his own audience they’ll need to “read between the lines” of what he’s saying, which is as close as the stream gets to an explanation.
The closest thing to a specific claim is an accusation that a cluster of chat accounts are sockpuppets run by the same person or people, with one name, Scott, floated as an example of someone he believes runs “alts.” Beyond that, there is no chat handle, no screenshot, no platform named, and no stated topic. Anyone trying to follow along in real time would have had nothing to go on except trying to use ESP.
Exhibit A
The First Embargo Announcement
Timestamps: 00:12:55–00:14:10 | Open clip in new tab
According to the transcript, he claims to have identified overlapping chat accounts run by the same person, then pivots directly into the embargo threat: “I think a lot of you could read between the lines here, but these are specific chatters and they are the same person… I’m just going to put an embargo on certain discussions of certain individuals because they just can’t handle it.”
No account names. No platform specified. No description of what “certain discussions” even covers. He follows this immediately with an appeal to move his audience off other platforms: “I have a monetized channel. I would appreciate people coming here” (00:14:03). Whatever the accusation actually is, the pitch to consolidate his audience on his own channel arrives before any specifics do.
Exhibit B
The Second Embargo, Minutes Later
Timestamps: 00:19:44–00:20:36 | Open clip in new tab
After a detour into cooking and fast food ingredients, he circles back to the same subject, this time describing his own content as insulated from outside criticism: “This is more like a VIP room of inside business… The people that follow me from my other content don’t even see these. So that’s why I’m not really that worried about it. So, yeah, I am. I’m going to put up another embargo.”
Again: no name, no topic. He mentions prior embargoes (“we’ve had them before”) without ever saying what any of them covered either, which points to this being a recurring device rather than a response to one specific incident. Two separate announcements, roughly six minutes apart, and the transcript leaves both exactly as unresolved as the first.
The takeaway: Two embargoes, no named targets, no topics, and an audience left playing Mad Libs with absolutely no clues. Whatever sparked this, the stream itself gives zero receipts, and neither does anything he mutters on camera. One has to wonder: was he fueled by caffeine, drugs, mania, or all of them? Was he even in the same dimension?