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Trevor Rainbolt
Born (1998-11-07) November 7, 1998 (age 26)
EducationUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs
Occupations
YouTube information
Channels
LocationLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active2020–present
Subscribers
  • 183 thousand (RAINBOLT)
  • 117 thousand (RAINBOLT TWO)
Total views
  • 15.8 million (RAINBOLT)
  • 61.3 million (RAINBOLT TWO)
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2022
Last updated: September 7, 2022
TikTok information
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Followers1.6 million
Likes40.5 million
Last updated: December 1, 2022

Trevor Rainbolt (born November 7, 1998), known mononymously as Rainbolt, is an American player of GeoGuessr, an online game where players see a photo from Google Street View and guess what location in the world it is from. Widely regarded as one of the best Geoguessr players, he became popular through Tiktok when posting videos of him guessing the exact location from music videos. He posts videos on Youtube and hosts weekly livestreams on Twitch.

Personal life

Rainbolt grew up in Arkansas and attended university for one year at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs before dropping out to work in Los Angeles as a social media strategist for a company that runs sports entertainment accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.[1]

Despite his knowledge of world geography, he had never left the United States until November 2022, when he announced on Twitter that he is now living in a different country each month, starting in Germany.[2][1][3]

Career

"Once you see the countries and their soil colors [...] it's just human intuition [...] can I describe to you why I think that it looked like it was Nigerian soil? Probably not, but it does. It's just part of that sixth sense you pick up on when you play the game so much."[1]

— Rainbolt to The Washington Post

Rainbolt started training his GeoGuessr skills during the COVID-19 pandemic by playing for four to five hours every day, studying landmarks like signs and telephone poles, and watching others livestream.[2][4][5] At some points he was playing up to 12-hour days, even dreaming in Streetview.[6]

Rainbolt posts on Tiktok as the username "georainbolt." He also hosts pro Geoguessr tournament livestreams on Twitch every Saturday, where the top players compete in 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4 brackets for a cash prize. Rainbolt posts videos on Youtube of these tournaments, and other Geoguessr tips, on his main channel "RAINBOLT". On his second channel, "RAINBOLT TWO", he posts daily Geoguessr videos.

He became viral for adding challenge by creating limitations: he guesses the location by seeing a Street View image for only a tenth of a second,[2] with half the image blurred,[1] two photos at once,[1] upside down, in black and white, or pixelated. In some videos, he identifies the location while blindfolded with someone else describing the scene to him.[7][2] He has even identified countries based only on viewing the dirt.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "The hot game on TikTok: Guessing locations on Google Maps". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Browning, Kellen (7 July 2022). "Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  3. ^ @georainbolt (2 November 2022). "life update: i sold everything i owned and am living in a different country every month indefinitely…first month: germany. where i spotted my first ever google car…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ Strachan, Maxwell (9 September 2022). "The Guy Who Memorized Google Maps Says You Can Too". www.vice.com. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  5. ^ Williams, Austin (21 June 2022). "This Google Street View genius can accurately identify any location around the world in seconds". FOX TV Stations. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Trevor Rainbolt interview: the man who saw the world". The Face. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  7. ^ "There's Nowhere to Hide From This Google Street View Genius". MEL Magazine. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Google Maps has become a game with Geoguessr — and Trevor Rainbolt has mastered it". NPR Illinois. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
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