Trevor Rainbolt

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 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. His first employer ran sports entertainment accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.

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. , he was living in Bangkok, Thailand, where he plans to stay until his 5-year visa runs out, or gets bored.

Career
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 live stream. At some points, he was playing up to 12-hour days, even dreaming in Street View. Rainbolt posts on TikTok under the username "georainbolt", an account he started in October 2021. 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, 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. He has identified countries based only on viewing the dirt or the sky.

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. 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. In April 2023, Rainbolt privately rented a billboard in Boston, Massachusetts, with his logo and face. Local news stories began reporting after several social media accounts shared images of the billboard. 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. In October 2023, Rainbolt served as a commentator for the inaugural GeoGuessr World Cup, which drew over 70,000 viewers. He also commentated for the qualifiers for the 2024 edition.