“When You Lose, People Are Gonna Rip You for This Forever”: ZeroDarkTony Details Pending Suits and Court Date Four Days Out

D’Amato stated he plans to subpoena Jarred’s watch-time data from YouTube to demonstrate a violation of that order. Nothing in the order bans Mr. Brooks from watching D’Amato’s channel.

He then turned his focus to Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, predicting Hochstetter would lose an ongoing case and claiming that if a pending appeal were won, it would force Hochstetter to pay D’Amato’s attorney Stephen indefinitely: “when you lose, and I’m not saying if, but when you lose, people are gonna rip you for this forever.” This is exactly what’s happening to D’Amato now. He’s lost civil and criminal cases due to his obsession with and targeting of a Scientology protestor who was a minor. When critics call out his behavior or mock him for these losses, he claims such criticism is illegal, yet it doesn’t seem to be illegal when he does the same to his critics.

D’Amato characterized Krackhead Kenny’s behavior as the reason the judge in the restraining order case ruled against him: “this particular judge in the RO case I have against him, she doesn’t believe him… she taxed him for it, five years.” Later in the stream D’Amato described critics who had re-posted content after copyright strikes as engaging in “tortious interference,” and said their continued activity “just shows further… malicious type of behavior.” He stated he intended to present witnesses under oath who would attest that certain critics are what he called “unalive trolls” whose “only goal is to have me unalive myself.” He framed the planned court filing as a response to what he described as a coordinated campaign to damage his reputation and income.

Exhibit A

D’Amato states his intent to sue “jackass Jarred” and his wife, describes the restraining order Jarred allegedly violates by watching the stream, and lays out the anticipated fee-collection priority: “Not to mention what those other lawyers are gonna get, but I’m first.”

Timestamps: 00:08:22 – 00:11:59 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states on stream that he plans to obtain Jarred’s YouTube watch-time records via subpoena and present them to a judge as evidence of a court-order violation. He also describes a pending fee appeal and claims priority over other attorneys if that appeal succeeds, naming “Stephen” as the attorney who would receive ongoing payments from Hochstetter.

Exhibit B

D’Amato addresses critics who re-uploaded content after copyright strikes, saying they “have left a trail of crumbs like Hansel and Gretel” and asking rhetorically: “Yeah, they’re just doing like these little, they think they’re gonna get me to like what?”

Timestamps: 00:16:46 – 00:18:53 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato frames the re-uploads as evidence of “tortious interference” and states that critics are “using my monetized content to make money.” He also says “there will be people that will peel them like a fucking banana,” though he immediately adds “I’m not gonna do it,” framing this as a third-party consequence rather than a personal action.

If he’s talking about HNZ’s content, we replied to the strikes with counternotifications, and because there was no action on D’Amato’s part to file a copyright suit, the videos were reinstated.  

Exhibit C

D’Amato describes plans to include witness declarations in a court filing, stating he has “very reliable witnesses that will agree under oath” that certain critics aim to have him “unalive” himself.

Timestamps: 00:19:47 – 00:23:36 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states that critics changed a channel description and that he has “the old screenshots for that,” positioning the screenshots as future evidence. He also references Cody, stating the change was made to the person’s channel description and that the original version is preserved.  He probably has not checked Cody’s channel description lately.  

Cody had changed his channel description at one point, because one of Tony’s fans didn’t find it entertaining.  It’s been changed many times, and Cody isn’t required to keep it one way or the other. Nevertheless, the YouTube channel @herolightcody has updated the channel description again, stating that “ZDT is a predator.” D’Amato has been complaining that Cody took that down without bothering to check it.  His screenshot team must be on vacation. 

Exhibit D

D’Amato confirms he personally filed copyright strikes against critics’ content and states the strikes have served their purpose: “I did the copyright strikes. Those have fulfilled their legal purpose for me.”

Timestamps: 00:29:09 – 00:31:26 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states he does not monitor critics’ content beyond what is needed for the strikes, and says critics’ continued activity “and them not stopping, knowing that I’ve told them to,” will be presented in court. He describes the ongoing stress as something “that will be known in the court as well.”

Exhibit E

D’Amato tells his audience that using litigation to identify anonymous critics is not doxxing: “And by the way, that’s not doxing, that’s public court records.”

Timestamps: 00:33:50 – 00:35:45 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states “we’re gonna get you identified, we’re gonna pull your covers” and expresses intent to subpoena a Discord server, framing both as outcomes of court proceedings rather than independent action. He claims critics are currently visible in a “respondents chat,” which he says places them “dead to rights.”

Exhibit F

With a court appearance four days out, D’Amato details the financial disclosures Brooks will be required to make, saying “Four days, four days until court” before describing anticipated line-item scrutiny of Brooks’s income, bills, and personal expenses.

Timestamps: 00:51:26 – 00:56:15 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states the court has already found a $23,000 figure “acceptable” and characterizes critics who dispute that figure as spreading “deliberate misinformation.” He also references the existing five-year restraining order and says audience members visible in the chat of someone subject to that order are thereby connected to what he calls a “civil conspiracy.”

Exhibit G

D’Amato describes the judge in his restraining order case as having watched Hochstetter “lie” during proceedings and ruling against him as a result: “And this particular judge in the RO case I have against him, she doesn’t believe him.”

Timestamps: 00:57:13 – 00:59:09 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato states his intention to sue Brooks and his wife for “a quarter million dollars” and says he has video of Brooks “calling my bail bondsman,” calling a jail, and stating on camera that he started his channel to harass D’Amato. These are D’Amato’s characterizations of recorded evidence; the underlying recordings are not verified independently here.

Exhibit H

D’Amato describes how a court-appointed financial evaluator could audit Brooks’s disclosures, stating that if discrepancies appear “that’s when you get contempt charges,” and: “And the judge will give it to us.”

Timestamps: 01:02:47 – 01:04:48 | Watch with a free account

D’Amato explains that court financial evaluators use a named formula to calculate payment obligations and can surface “addresses, accounts, mortgages, loans, credit cards.” He states he is prepared to wait for that process if the initial disclosures appear incomplete. Across eight clips from the October 25, 2026 stream, D’Amato stated on the record his intent to sue named individuals, confirmed he filed copyright strikes he described as serving a legal purpose, and placed a concrete court date four days out, creating a documented pre-litigation timeline in his own words.

Sources

• Original YouTube Video
• Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
• Full Text Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
• Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
• Date: 2026-10-25
• Stream ID: YOUTUBE · HgpoVAMXpg8