Vitaly Zdorovetskiy streams himself and his team exposing an alleged predator, only the man they harass is the wrong one.
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy has made it his mission to catch and expose predators on stream. This time though, he caught the wrong one and has now apologized for it.
Vitaly's Story
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy was originally known as VitalyzdTV on YouTube. His content consisted of prank videos that got more and more extreme as time went on. His pranks include climbing the Hollywood logo, running through the football field of Germany vs. Brasil 2014 or posing as a Russian hitman.
In 2020, he was then convicted of assaulting a jogger, after which he switched his content to IRL-streaming on Kick. He emigrated to the Philippines to make more content as people and police tend to be more held back with punishing these streamers there. But after multiple incidents like threatening a woman to rob her, stealing a ventilator out of a shop and trying to steal the motorbike of a security guard, Vitaly also went to trial in the Philippines.
There, he got taken into Detention pending deportation but without intention to actually deport him. He was supposed to stay there spend some time in jail. But then, a few months later, Vitaly did get deported to Russia, which sparked speculations if Putin had anything to do with it.
His Comeback
Since the end of January 2026, Vitaly is back in America and with it right back to streaming his antics.
He now has made it his mission to catch "predators" by luring them to places where instead of an underage girl, he and his team wait for the predatory men. For that, his team catfishes potential predators by posing as underage girls and texting these grown men. When they agree to meet (mostly with bad intentions), Vitaly and his crew surprise them, question them, expose them and call police. Of course, everything is livestreamed.
False Accusations
One of these "stigs" has recently gone south when Vitaly aimed to expose another predator on camera. One of his team members had texted with a man via Snapchat and had explicitly told him she was 16. On the night they were supposed to meet, the "exposers" took positions and waited for the suspicious man. And one man did turn up.
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The crew immediately started storming him with Vitaly going up to the man singing gibberish until he ultimately sings, with a fake Indian accent, of course:
You wanna r*** a 16-year-old.
And when the man says that she never told him she was 16, Vitaly, still singing, answers that she did. While Vitaly continues to sing and accuse the man of being a predator, the accused repeatedly tries to make him stop, listen and see the messages on his phone.
I swear to god, she never told me she was 16, I swear. No, wait, dude, listen, 18, I swear to god. I don't move like that.
He says this while showing his phone to Vitaly. He even pleads with the girl to pull up her messages to prove that she never told him she was 16. The man proceeds to explain that he has a "CNC"-public-kink (consentual non-consentual) and wanted to meet a 18-year-olg girl in that area, frantically trying to show his phone to anyone that will listen.
But the girl posing as the 16-year old takes her phone out with the messages received reading:
LOL you can tell me
Her reply:
Okay I want to be totally honest before everything. I lied on there, I'm 16 but don't make it weird.
Then him writing:
Oh, wow, let me get another (unitelligable) of you.
The accused man now decidedly shouts that that is not him and that is not his account, showing his actual account to them. He then proceeds to call the police with his pleas and evidence not helping him convince the group of his innocence. Vitaly even says:
You're one of those tech-Indians, smart ones huh, two Snapchats.
The group think that the man either deleted his snaps or has a burner Snapchat account he used to text this supposed 16-year-old. The man vehemently tries to defend himself to no avail.
The girl then gets blocked and everyone crashes out saying it is him when they all watched him and his phone the entire time, seeing that he did not block anyone that second.
After a long time, Vitaly finally gets everyone to calm down, acting like he is letting the accused man explain his side of the story but also says that, because he is Indian, he is probably smart and cheated the system. The man does not get to explain.
Multiple police officers show up, two of them talking separately to the accused man and the woman posing as the 16-year old. Then the clip cuts off.
Vitaly has since deleted the stream and clips from his channel.
Later he posted a statement on X saying:
It has come to my attention that on a recent episode of Catching Child Predators, my team and I mistakenly portrayed Akash Singhania as a child predator.
He apologizes to Singhania and his family and ensures that he learned from the experience.
— VitalyTheGoat (@vitalyzdtv) April 14, 2026
People are divided, while some still think Singhania is a predator and just got away this time, most sharply criticize Vitaly. While Singhania may have some questionable preferences, it is consentual legal and with partners over 18. It seems like Vitaly did not really want to expose the truth but more likely get clips, clicks and praise for outrageous reactions catching supposed predators gets you, with total disregard to the implications this brings. This kind of mistake can have serious consequences for the accused. Also, his singing and remarks were just plain racist.
One commenter on X posts private messages of him and Singhania, showing the accused man's intentions to possibly sue Vitaly and his team for defamation and emotional distress.
your getting sued pic.twitter.com/uXeUNkBvzj
— Light Yagami (@LightYa8ami) April 14, 2026
