ZDT NIGHTSHIFT REAL LIFE CONSEQUENCES; YES YOU, FREUDIAN, UNFORCED ERRORS [ZeroDarkTony] / November 8, 2026 / YouTube / YIJRoFSXLvI
On a Nov. 8, 2026 YouTube livestream, Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., known online as ZeroDarkTony, read out cases of people who died by suicide after false accusations and told critics he named, “People like you cause this.” He also said he was “not accusing” them of involvement in any of those deaths. Later in the stream he said he would take his critics to court.
“You Do That. That’s What You Do to People.”
He framed the segment as statistics about “people who falsely accuse people of being PDFs” (online slang for pedophiles). After listing harms that include “destruction of personal and professional reputations” and “severe psychological distress,” he read a 2014 case from the United Kingdom, as he described it: a 48-year-old father, falsely accused in a Facebook post, whose name, photograph and address were shared, and who died three days later.
“You do that. That’s what you do to people,” he said. Then he rephrased: “You and people like you. Well, people like you. Let’s rephrase that. People like you cause this.”
Exhibit A
After a list of harms tied to false accusations, D’Amato reads the 2014 U.K. case and tells the person he is addressing, “He died by unaliving three days later. You do that. That’s what you do to people.” He then rephrases it to “People like you cause this.”
Timestamps: 00:11:11 – 00:12:24 | Watch with a free account
Right after the clip he said, “Same with you, Scott.” He uses that first name on other streams for Scott Hochstetter, the streamer known as DOA. Then he said it again: “People like you cause this.” He read several more cases, from England and New Jersey, repeating the line after them. Partway through he added, “So I’m not accusing you of being involved in any of those. But that’s your behavior.” A few minutes later he added, “that’s what you did to me.”
He went on to name others: “Same with you, Jared,” and two critics he called Jen De Leon and David B, who he said are “the type of people that contribute to that.”
“Slisp Your Wrists”: His Own Words to Critics
D’Amato’s warning that words can push people to suicide comes from a streamer who has told his own critics, more than once, to cut their wrists. On a May 3, 2024 Rumble stream, after mocking a critic’s plea deal, he said: “Slisp your wrists. Slisp them, just slip them wrists.”
From the archive: May 3, 2024
D’Amato, on his May 3, 2024 Rumble stream: “Slisp your wrists. Slisp them, just slip them wrists.”
Timestamps: 01:02:18 – 01:03:00 | Watch with a free account | All exhibits from that stream
It was not the only time. HNZ’s transcripts of his streams show him saying it to other adult critics. In December 2024 he told one woman to “cut your fucking wrists in a bathtub, bitch” and said he hoped her “whole family dies.” On Aug. 10, 2025 he told another, “Slisp your wrists, you ugly pig. Save the world some trouble.” On an Aug. 31, 2025 stream he complained that critics were trying “to make it seem like I said slash your wrists,” said that was not the word he used, and told the critic he was addressing to “take a couple pills before you do.”
HNZ has collected these lines, dated and bleeped, in two videos: Go Unalive Yourself: ZeroDarkTony’s Suicide-Baiting Lines, Part 1 and Part 2: A YouTube Bully in Action. Both carry a content warning for suicide and self-harm.
Exhibit B
Moments after naming critics he calls Jen De Leon and David B, D’Amato says, “And if you don’t want to give me peace, I’ll go into court and I’ll take it.”
Timestamps: 00:22:27 – 00:23:12 | Watch with a free account
In the same passage he tells them they “could fuck all the way off” and that he “can’t wait to cross-examine” them.
What He Said to a 16-Year-Old
D’Amato is on criminal probation in a case in which one of the protected victims is a teenager HNZ calls [S.], because he was a minor. In December 2025 D’Amato pleaded no contest to two counts of disobeying a court order. Most of the 26 counts in the original complaint, which included stalking and child-cruelty charges, were dismissed and never proven. A judge summarily revoked his probation on July 31, 2026, and a probation violation hearing is set for Jan. 27, 2027. HNZ’s explainer on the case has the details.
Months before his arrest, D’Amato spent several streams on [S.], whom he called “a 16 year old boy.” On May 30, 2024, after hearing that [S.] might report him to police for stalking, he answered on stream.
From the archive: May 30, 2024
D’Amato: “Go right the fuck ahead and make a false report about me, young man, and your parents will be in court with me for the next fucking eight years. And I will take their house.” He then says his sexual remarks about the teenager’s mother were deliberate: “I’ll talk about it more since I know it bothers you. That’s why I’m doing it, because you’re a soft little boy.”
Timestamps: 00:10:30 – 00:11:52 | Watch with a free account | [S.]’s name is bleeped | Full Evidence Room post
From the archive: May 30, 2024, later in the same stream
D’Amato on [S.]: “He is a delicious predator’s meal, okay? … If I’m a psychotic predator who wants a little boy and I’m gonna fucking tap that meth pipe and I know he’s out there, I’m going to get him.”
Timestamps: 00:22:49 – 00:23:34 | Watch with a free account | [S.]’s name is bleeped
D’Amato framed the second remark as a warning about the teenager’s safety. The same day, on another stream, he called Child Protective Services on [S.] live and threatened to sue [S.]’s parents, and on a third he asked his audience for information on [S.]’s parents.
Exhibit C
Speaking to someone he calls “chief,” D’Amato says, “not that I care that that type of person would leave the earth. But who the fuck are you to determine that about somebody? The word executioner comes to mind. I’m not even sure if that is a fit. But these are just my opinions.”
Timestamps: 00:30:24 – 00:34:11 | Watch with a free account
He goes on: “if you do happen to remove a couple of those individuals from the earth, you might want to shut up about taking responsibility for it.” The audio does not make clear whom he means by “chief” or by “those individuals.” About two minutes later he says, “a lot of speaking is going a bit off the rails.”
Exhibit D
Describing what he calls nearly three years of defamatory statements and “psychological torture,” D’Amato says, “I’ll tell you the fuck what I’m going to stop it in the courtroom.”
Timestamps: 00:38:47 – 00:39:32 | Watch with a free account
He adds, “I’m not just doing this shit for me.” He did not name a case, a court or a lawyer on this stream.
His descriptions of the people he named, and his claim that they falsely accused him, are his own. He offered no evidence on the stream tying any of them to the deaths he read out, and he said he was not accusing them of involvement.
If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, US) or visit 988lifeline.org.
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Text Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2026-11-08
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · YIJRoFSXLvI
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