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Anthime "Tim" Gionet (born November 16, 1987), more commonly known as Baked Alaska and Tim "Treadstone", is an American alt-right/far right political activist, former rapper, and social media personality.
Gionet "is known for his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi tweets." He has published the "Fourteen Words," a neo-Nazi mantra, on his Twitter feed, "retweets videos of his friends saying that 'Hitler did nothing wrong,'" and is "even known for tweeting images of people in gas chambers." During the 2016 president election, Gionet was a "a prominent pro-Trump troll." He marched at the white supremacist Charlottesville rally in 2017.
Early life
Anthime "Tim" Gionet was born in Anchorage, Alaska to a family of eight. His father, Paul Gionet, is a pharmacist and his mother is Susanne Gionet. He was born and raised following the Christian faith. Gionet's family operates a non-profit organization, Russian Encouragement, which aims to spread the gospel and provide medical supplies to orphanages in eastern Russia. He attended Azusa Pacific University and graduated with Bachelors of Science in marketing.
Career
After graduating from Azusa Pacific University in 2010, Gionet began working at Warner Bros. Records. Through his work at Warner Bros. Records, Gionet landed a job working marketing and social media for the Warped Tour, where he first developed his nickname, Baked Alaska. In 2011 Gionet worked for Capitol Records, developing musical videos for songs such as "Alaska Vacation" and "I Climbed Mountains". Following his work at Capitol Records, Gionet worked as a social media strategist at BuzzFeed, where he helped develop content and ideas for BuzzFeed's social media accounts such as Tasty. After leaving BuzzFeed in 2016, Gionet traveled as Milo Yiannopoulos's "Dangerous Faggot Tour" manager. After parting with Milo Yiannopoulos, Gionet returned to creating music and videos. In May 2016, Gionet released one of his most successful songs, "MAGA ANTHEM". In late 2016, Gionet worked with Mike Cernovich on a project called MAGA3X aimed at increasing Trump's visibility to the public until Election Day.
Donald Trump
Gionet is a supporter of Donald Trump. In May 2016, Gionet was introduced to Donald Trump and received the candidate's signature on his arm next to his Trump tattoo. Later that month, Gionet released "MAGA Anthem," which featured pro-Trump lyrics and amassed more than 100,000 views on YouTube. Mike Cernovich then hired Gionet to work on a project dedicated to gather Trump supporters together, MAGA3X. In July 2016, Gionet received special access to the Republican National Convention through his work with Milo Yiannopoulos. Following the election, Gionet continued to stay active in his pro-Trump efforts by giving speeches and participating in multiple rallies.
Twitter hashtags
Gionet was also largely responsible for spearheading the #DumpKellogs [sic] and #TrumpCup hashtag movements. #TrumpCup was a trend that took place in November 2016 on Twitter. It began after allegations that a Starbucks employee refused a customer service because he asked for the name "Trump" to be written on the cup. The Twitter hashtag trend had more than 27,000 tweets in the span of 2 days. In April 2017, Gionet headed the #KeepBannon and #FireKushner hashtag trends after reports of conflict between two of Donald Trump's advisers.
Twitter controversy
In late 2016, following Trump's electoral victory, conflict arose between Cernovich and Gionet regarding Gionet's views on race. Gionet was disinvited from "DeploraBall" after making anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi remarks on Twitter. Gionet later mended his relationship with Cernovich and stated that he misspoke.
Public appearances
Gionet participated in the "Freedom of Speech" rally outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on June 25, 2017, and he was one of the speakers at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. August 11, 2017, speaking before a host of white supremacists, nationalists, and neo-Nazis.