ZeroDarkTony is live [ZeroDarkTony] / October 20, 2026 / YouTube / HiNFP7THPqQ
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.
Update, Nov. 9, 2026: On Oct. 29, Judge Hancock-Goode granted D’Amato’s fee motion in part. She awarded $10,725.00 in attorney fees, less than half of the $23,197.40 he asked for, and told the two sides to agree on a payment plan. Three days earlier, on Oct. 26, D’Amato told his viewers he would not sue Brooks or his family: “Can you imagine suing him and his wife and his daughter? That would be crazy.” He added, “maybe I was trolling, but I wasn’t trolling the respondent.”
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, spent much of an Oct. 20, 2026, YouTube livestream, driving through Los Angeles’s west side, naming people he says he will sue. He cited the restraining order he holds against Jarred Brooks and called a $23,000 fee request in that case money already owed, though the court had not ruled on it. His targets, most of them threatened with lawsuits and all of them with insults, were Brooks, known online as Krackhead Kenny, and Brooks’s wife; Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies; people he called Eric, Ashley, Chee and Johnny; Hero Not Zero contributor Hero Light Cody; and HNZ reporter Zoey.
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D’Amato said he will file a John Doe lawsuit, a suit against unnamed people that lets the plaintiff subpoena records showing who they are, to unmask anonymous accounts he says posted threats and his private information. He said he already holds a five-year restraining order against one of them and that after “the legal fee hearing the other day,” that person is “gonna owe $23,000,” with more to come over “frivolous and moronic motions.” That person is Brooks, the respondent in D’Amato’s civil harassment case. The court had not decided the fee request.
He told Brooks he was “getting fucking sued too,” told Hochstetter, “I can’t wait until we get you on the witness stand,” and called Johnny and Zoey “soon to be exposed and sued.”
Exhibit A
D’Amato explains the stream’s legal focus: “I have to file some lawsuits because of some egregious privacy violations from some very stupid people, among other things.” He calls the internet a place for “mentally ill stalkers” who post his private information and make false claims about him, and says he does not mind being made fun of, but some conduct crosses the line.
Timestamps: 00:04:34 – 00:06:33 | Watch with a free account
The conduct he says crosses that line is posting his private information, stalking his location and posting threats.
Exhibit B
D’Amato describes the John Doe lawsuit, his restraining order and the fee hearing, then turns to a man he calls Eric: “And don’t think you’re gonna get out of this, Eric, for doing that, you fucking piece of shit.” He accuses Eric of posting his hospital information, then insults Eric and a woman he calls Eric’s girlfriend, including graphic sexual speculation that he qualifies: “I’m not saying that it happened or not. I’m just curious if you think it happened or not. I mean, my opinion is yes, but that doesn’t make it factual.” About a minute after the clip ends, he returns to Eric: “Boy, posting my private hospital information, that’s gonna be a real fucking problem for you, my man. I ain’t done with you by a damn sight. See you in court, by the way.”
Timestamps: 00:11:36 – 00:16:19 | Watch with a free account
The restraining order and fee hearing are not about Eric. They come from D’Amato v. Brooks (26STRO01932), his civil harassment case against Brooks. The court granted D’Amato a five-year restraining order against Brooks on June 22, 2026, and D’Amato then asked it to order Brooks to pay $23,197.40 in attorney fees. “They owe me $23,000,” he says, then corrects himself: the money is for his lawyer. The court had not ordered it. On Oct. 1, Judge Holly L. Hancock-Goode said she needed income and expense information before ruling, ordered Brooks to file and serve an FL-150 by Oct. 24, and continued the motion to Oct. 29.
D’Amato does not say who Eric is, and HNZ has not identified him. He showed nothing on stream to support the claim that Eric posted his hospital information. By his own account, the sexual speculation about Eric’s girlfriend is opinion that “doesn’t make it factual.”
Exhibit C
D’Amato turns to Hochstetter, who he says wants to sue him: “He tried before he lost. He’s gonna lose again.” He says a recorded statement of Hochstetter talking about flyers will matter in court: “In that court, we’re gonna get to the bottom of those fucking flyers and we’re gonna find out what happened. We’re gonna find out who got them, who bought the ink, who paid for the fucking paper. … And you’re gonna be under oath. And Scott, I can’t wait until we get you on the witness stand, you dumb fuck.” He ends, “So, no, I’m not concerned about a lawsuit with that dumbass.”
Timestamps: 00:22:13 – 00:24:07 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato did not play the recording he says he has of Hochstetter or say what is in it, and he named no court or case number for the case in which he says Hochstetter will testify.
Part of “he lost” holds: Hochstetter sought a restraining order against D’Amato (24STRO08472), and a judge denied it in February 2025. The rest cuts the other way. D’Amato then asked the court to make Hochstetter pay $18,528.75 in attorney fees, and on May 27, 2025, the judge denied that too. It is now on appeal, and no fees have been awarded.
Exhibit D
D’Amato denies being a Scientologist and says that, even if he were one, what Hochstetter has done to him “is a fucking hate crime,” along with two people he names as Chee and Ashley. He predicts that the lawsuit he understands Hochstetter is bringing, which he says names him along with the police and the Church of Scientology, is “getting dismissed.” He then turns to Ashley: “I can’t wait to get your fat fucking ass on that witness stand, Ashley, you fucking pig, who also called me a PDF, okay? So, also called me a Scientologist. So I am coming, legally, I am coming for you, all right? With paper and civil action.”
Timestamps: 01:19:54 – 01:23:07 | Watch with a free account
He frames the threat toward Ashley as civil, not physical: “paper and civil action.” “PDF” is online slang for pedophile.
Under California’s hate crime law, speech alone is not a crime unless it threatens violence against a specific person or group and the speaker can carry the threat out (Penal Code section 422.6(c)). Calling someone a Scientologist does not meet that test. A false label may support a defamation claim, which is a civil matter, not a crime.
His account of Hochstetter’s lawsuit is secondhand by his own description. About three minutes before this clip, he said, “But from what I understand, I’m not sure if it’s true. I haven’t looked at any of this shit.” He named no court or case number.
Near the end of the clip he says Hochstetter put “an illegal choke hold on someone, plain and simple.” That is an allegation. Hochstetter has not been convicted of anything. In People v. Hochstetter (25CJCF01106), 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. None of those counts carries a hate-crime label. Five counts of vandalism of religious property as a hate crime were dismissed at his preliminary hearing on Aug. 8, 2025.
Exhibit E
Driving down Brooks Street, D’Amato announces another target by first name: “I wish I didn’t have to say this, Jared, but you’re getting fucking sued too.” This is Brooks. D’Amato calls Brooks’s wife “an accomplice” and adds, “So, Jared, not only are you going to have to pay the legal fees, but I am going to continue.” Then: “You don’t have a choice.”
Timestamps: 01:25:44 – 01:27:44 | Watch with a free account
The legal fees he mentions are the $23,197.40 he had asked the court to order Brooks to pay. The court had not ruled; the motion was continued to Oct. 29.
D’Amato does not describe what Brooks did beyond “what you did.” A few minutes later he says Brooks’s wife is being added because she has been on Brooks’s stream and “she pays the bills to enable you to act like an absolute fucking animal.” He does not name her. Brooks filed that remark with the court on Oct. 23 to oppose the fee request. On Oct. 26, D’Amato said he would not sue Brooks or his family (see the update at the top).
Exhibit F
D’Amato starts with HNZ contributor Hero Light Cody: “What about you, Cody? Do you ever talk about any of that shit? No. All you do is talk about me.” He then widens the list: “How about you, Johnny, Zoe, you fucking pieces of shit, you soon to be exposed and sued pieces of shit? You too, Jared, you fucking loser.” Zoe is Zoey, a Hero Not Zero reporter. “I’m telling you something, you motherfuckers, I’m gonna sue your fucking asses,” he says, and blames “good old fucking chocolatey tea,” a critic he does not otherwise identify. He then turns to someone he calls “fat fuck”: “Wait till I get a judgment against you and your fucking friends, fatass.”
Timestamps: 02:04:08 – 02:08:54 | Watch with a free account
Every consequence he names in this clip is civil: lawsuits and judgments, not physical harm. He named no court, case number or filing date for any of these suits. His last try at Hero Light Cody through the courts failed: in Willens v. D’Amato (25STRO01863), a judge quashed his lawyer’s 2025 subpoenas to YouTube for records on several critics’ channels, Cody’s among them, and ordered the lawyer to pay $2,000 of the other side’s attorney fees, a payment she put on hold.
The clip ends with D’Amato in a mocking voice, playing the person he is attacking, “I’m the biggest threat to Scientology there is,” and answering himself, “No you’re not.” He does not name that person in the clip. By context, it is Hochstetter: in the two minutes after the clip ends, D’Amato calls the same person “Mr. Felonies,” mentions “the D.O.A.,” and tells him, “I know that you’ll grow up in jail, but you’re gonna take a plea deal.”
Exhibit G
D’Amato addresses Hochstetter again near the stream’s end: “And by the way, Scott, this is my fucking city.” Of his critics, he says, “they wanted to start it, I’m gonna finish it. Civil, of course, in a very civil way.” Then, of Hochstetter: “I hope you’re having really horrible nightmares. I’ll bet he’s having nightmares about jail.” Two minutes later: “I’m gonna take back everything that’s mine that you motherfuckers tried to take from me, and I’m gonna do it through the court.”
Timestamps: 02:18:49 – 02:23:33 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato calls “finish it” civil in the same breath. The nightmares and jail remarks are wishes about Hochstetter’s state of mind, not statements of intent to harm him. Hochstetter’s criminal case is pending. The charges are allegations, he has pleaded not guilty, and his next court date is a pretrial conference on Dec. 1, 2026.
The clip ends with D’Amato mimicking Hochstetter, “Oh yeah, ZDT told me about the subpoenas,” as part of his claim that Hochstetter copies his ideas.
Related: D’Amato’s other Oct. 20 stream, from the same evening, where he names many of the same people.
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
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- Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2026-10-20
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · HiNFP7THPqQ
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