Tim Gionet, the YouTube live-streamer better known as "Baked Alaska," held his cell phone aloft on a selfie stick with his body turned in the passenger seat so that the phone was pointed at another streamer, "Chaggot," as an argument between the two men escalated into a shouting match one night last month in Mesa, Ariz.
"Take the camera off of me," Chaggot demanded. "I'm not taking this shit anymore."
Gionet kept the camera trained on Chaggot, and, as seen on the livestreamed video, Chaggot began throwing jabs to knock the phone away.
The driver, another streamer named Woozuh, can be taking his eyes off the road as he turns to observe the scuffle."
We had to pull over because he was hitting me and we were about to crash the car," Gionet told a police officer who met the trio to respond to the streamer's call to report an assault. The three men eventually came to an agreement that Gionet would not press charges, and Chaggot, who was intoxicated, would ride back to his house.
Incredibly, the scene repeated itself a second time, with Chaggot again assaulting Gionet inside the vehicle as they traveled the roadway.
"He's upset that me and my friend, Woozuh, are filming," Gionet explained to another officer. "He's like, 'Stop filming, stop filming. But we're YouTubers, and this is our job, and this is what we're doing, so…."