Trevor Rainbolt Explained

Trevor Rainbolt
Birth Place:Longview, Texas, U.S.
Education:University of Colorado Colorado Springs (dropped out)
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Location:Bangkok, Thailand
Years Active:2020–present
Associated Acts:Ludwig Ahgren
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Silver Year:2022
Stats Update:November 18, 2024
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Followers:2.9 million
Likes:83 million
Stats Update:October 7, 2024

Trevor Rainbolt (born November 7, 1998), known mononymously as Rainbolt, is an American social media personality and player of GeoGuessr, an online geography game. He initially gained popularity through posting videos on TikTok, which showed GeoGuessr gameplay in his characteristic high-intensity style and often involved challenges or self-imposed limitations. He posts videos on YouTube about the game and other geography-related topics.

Personal life

Born in Longview, Texas, Rainbolt grew up in Flippin, Arkansas[1] and moved to Alabama for twelfth grade, graduating from Spanish Fort High School.[2] [3] He enrolled in university for one year at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs before dropping out to work in Los Angeles as a social media strategist.[4] His first employer ran sports entertainment accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.[5]

He had only left the United States once briefly until November 2022, when he announced on Twitter that he would be living in a different country each month, starting in Germany, Spain, and Portugal.[4] [6] [7], he was living in Bangkok, Thailand.[8]

Career

Rainbolt started honing 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.[9] [10] At some points, he was playing up to 12-hour days, even dreaming in Street View.[11] Rainbolt posts on TikTok under the username "georainbolt", an account he started in October 2021.[12] He has also hosted pro GeoGuessr tournament live streams on Twitch, where the top-ranking players compete in 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4 brackets for a cash prize.

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,[13] with half the image blurred, two photos at once, upside down, and in black and white, or pixelated. In some videos, he identifies the location while blindfolded, with someone else describing the scene to him.[14] He has identified countries based only on viewing the dirt or the sky.[15]

He revealed the 2023 New York Jets schedule using street view to determine the home cities of the Jets' opponents, in collaboration with the Jets' social media.[16] In June 2023, after seeing a TikTok video of an egg sandwich, Rainbolt spent nearly 100 hours tracking down the bagel shop. The restaurant, Bagel Market in Manhattan, then named the sandwich after Rainbolt.[17] In April 2023, Rainbolt privately rented a billboard in Boston, Massachusetts, with his logo and face.[18] Local news stories began reporting after several social media accounts shared images of the billboard.[19] The billboard read, "this is boston. nice."

On September 12, 2023, Rainbolt became the first person to play a GeoGuessr game while skydiving, in a stunt with Red Bull athlete and skydiving expert Sean MacCormac over Lake Elsinore, California. He achieved a score of 21,047 out of 25,000 in the classic game.[20] [21] In October 2023, Rainbolt served as a commentator for the inaugural GeoGuessr World Cup, which drew over 70,000 viewers.[22] He also commentated for the 2024 edition.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rainbolt . Trevor . November 11, 2024 . i found my school... . Youtube.
  2. Web site: Rainbolt . Trevor . March 26, 2022 . google maps but you have 2 seconds to guess part 2 . live . TikTok.
  3. From quitting school to climbing Kilimanjaro: Rainbolt's life philosophy (INTERVIEW PART 1/4) . 2023-04-21 . Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément . 2024-11-27 . YouTube.
  4. News: Ellingham . Miles . 1 March 2023 . GeoGuessr trailblazer hits the ground running . registration . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240118190807/https://www.ft.com/content/3c3c373b-3be3-46f1-b5e5-5ac62da87d4c . January 18, 2024 . 2 March 2023 . Financial Times.
  5. News: Amenabar . Teddy . 2022-07-11 . The hot game on TikTok: Guessing locations on Google Maps . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20230327151019/https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/07/11/geoguessr-game-rainbolt-tiktok/ . March 27, 2023 . 2022-08-01 . The Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  6. News: Browning . Kellen . 2022-07-07 . Siberia or Japan? Expert Google Maps Players Can Tell at a Glimpse. . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240515072755/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/business/geoguessr-google-maps.html . May 15, 2024 . 2022-08-01 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  7. 1587794478592847872 . georainbolt . 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… . rainbolt . November 2, 2022 . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20230725102529/https://twitter.com/georainbolt/status/1587794478592847872 . July 25, 2023 . live.
  8. a video . January 14, 2024 . RAINBOLT . YouTube.
  9. News: Strachan . Maxwell . 9 September 2022 . The Guy Who Memorized Google Maps Says You Can Too . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240305141213/https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake7a5/geoguessr-rainbolt-interview . March 5, 2024 . 11 September 2022 . VICE . en.
  10. News: Williams . Austin . 21 June 2022 . This Google Street View genius can accurately identify any location around the world in seconds . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240407035302/https://www.fox6now.com/news/this-google-street-view-genius-can-accurately-identify-any-location-around-the-world-in-seconds?taid=62b300c336f17e0001eec72a . April 7, 2024 . 11 September 2022 . FOX6 News Milwaukee.
  11. Web site: Gorton . Thomas . 9 November 2022 . Trevor Rainbolt interview: the man who saw the world . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20230929193441/https://theface.com/society/trevor-rainbolt-interview-geoguessr-poster-boy-tik-tok-google-street-view-socia-media . September 29, 2023 . 2022-11-16 . The Face . en-gb.
  12. News: Brown . Hannah . 2022-05-20 . This influencer can name any country in under a second - using only Google street view . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326102752/https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/05/20/this-game-is-my-way-of-travelling-meet-the-google-maps-tiktok-star . March 26, 2023 . Euronews.
  13. Web site: August 19, 2022 . How This Guy Can Guess Where He Is In 0.1 Seconds . 2024-01-07 . Cheddar News. Also available on YouTube. Archived from the original on 7 January 2024.
  14. Web site: Klee . Miles . 2022-06-16 . There's Nowhere to Hide From This Google Street View Genius . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20231008213319/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/geoguessr-georainbolt-trevor-rainbolt-google-street-view . October 8, 2023 . 2022-08-01 . MEL Magazine . en-US.
  15. Web site: Davis . Susan . 2022-06-25 . Google Maps has become a game with Geoguessr — and Trevor Rainbolt has mastered it . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20221110154031/https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-06-25/google-maps-has-become-a-game-with-geoguessr-and-trevor-rainbolt-has-mastered-it . November 10, 2022 . 2022-08-01 . NPR Illinois . en.
  16. Web site: Treacy . Dan . 2023-05-12 . Best and worst NFL schedule release videos, from Titans' 'Chester Cheeto' hit to 49ers & Cardinals flops . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230608174043/https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-schedule-release-videos-titans-cardinals-49ers/nwkm3dgvzhauskb5lqzpscxv . June 8, 2023 . 2024-05-22 . Sporting News . en-us.
  17. Web site: Notopoulos . Katie . 2023-06-13 . If You Post a Delicious Bagel Sandwich on the Internet, Do You Have to Say Where You Got It? . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240327001340/https://www.gq.com/story/rainbot-geoguessr-bagel . March 27, 2024 . 2023-06-13 . GQ . en-US.
  18. Web site: RAINBOLT . April 3, 2023 . rawcruz . i bought a billboard to help geoguessr players . Video . YouTube.
  19. Web site: Thorpe . Lindsey . February 23, 2023 . 'This is Boston. Nice.' The story behind Boston's newest billboard . dead . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20240308221914/https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/this-is-boston-nice-story-behind-bostons-newest-billboard/6AME2HNTDFHV5B6M37V3OEELOE/ . March 8, 2024 . Boston 25 News.
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