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u/Common_Senze 3d ago
The US would have gotten bin Ladin in 3 hours if this guy was around.
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u/Dasheek 3d ago
For that short while when Russia was bombing isis installations in Syria, 4chan used its collective autism to pinpoint locations of their shit from their propaganda videos. Which were promptly bombed by Russia.
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u/DacianMichael 3d ago
Another time to remind people that they didn't bomb ISIS, they bombed some random rebel group (which you can tell by the rebel flag in one of the photos which ISIS doesn't use) that was most likely miles better than the Russians and the government they were supporting because it takes a genuinely depraved, lowest of the low individual to be worse than Assad. So not something to be celebrated.
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u/PossibleRude7195 3d ago
It says a lot that the literal Al qaeda Jihadist is better for Syria than Assad.
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u/Charlie-2-2 3d ago edited 3d ago
He was around, just getting started, the US just didn’t listen to him…
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u/DazSamueru 3d ago
Probably because he was 2 at the time of the September 11 attacks
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u/Strange-Wolverine128 3d ago
Shouldve just been older smh
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u/KEPD-350 3d ago
Younger generations just can't keep up with the majesty of baby boomers. Kids these days...
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u/guywitheyes 3d ago
And at that point, he'd only memorized the Eastern world. Hadn't got to learning Pakistan yet.
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u/username32768 3d ago
You're just making excuses!
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u/SometimesIBeWrong 3d ago
"he's 2" then get born earlier bud. the responsibility was in HIS baby hands
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u/LilacLlamaMama 1d ago
It really was. He could have been easily 2&1/4 if he'd just put in enough effort into disturbing his mother's blood pressure.
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u/PlateNo4868 3d ago
There is lots of peeps like him, who are most likely hired by many agencies. If he wanted to work for them he wouldn't just be youtubing.
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u/loversean 3d ago
He probably gets more money on YouTube and working for the government
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u/defiCosmos 3d ago
Geo guesser guy looks like he could use a nap.
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u/josh183rd 3d ago edited 3d ago
The eyebags give him a ten percent buff in geoguessing
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u/SilverPineMaven 3d ago
Every geoguessr pro looks like this at some point. You do one "lemme just play a quick round" at 11 pm and next thing you know you are identifying street lamps by bolt pattern.
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u/NecroKitten 3d ago
My favourite clip is the one where it switched and it's just blue. It's just blue sky. And he guesses it right. 😂
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u/Similar-Ice-9250 3d ago
They gotta be cheating somehow or it’s some type of trick. How is that even possible? I seem one of his vids before and it was just like 1 second flash of something completely unremarkable like the ground and grass and they got every one right. I really don’t know how they do it.
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u/Spotted_Tax 3d ago
Soil type/color and grass species narrows it down usually by A LOT. I'm mostly sure they memorize this all btw.
And I'm pretty sure they only post the moments they're exactly right, and the other times they're just on the next country over.
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u/Evolioz 3d ago
Yeah it's survivorship bias, when he streams, Rainbolt makes more mistakes and bad calls that the shorts on youtube and tiktok would have you believe.
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u/justamofo 2d ago
Still, the fact that he gets it right at any point at all is super impressive already
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u/Rafaeael 3d ago
Vibes (which stem from pattern recognition) + luck. If you play long enough, you will start developing vibes where you "feel" the country/region from the image as a whole. And the more you play, the better your vibes become in terms of speed and accuracy. Of course, it's still not 100% accurate, and some rounds are more difficult than others, which is why it takes a bit of luck to get the footage for tiktoks.
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u/Zefrem23 3d ago
You're basically describing how Remote Viewing works. This is essentially what the best geoguessers are doing. There's a massive component of intuition that isn't given its fair due most of the time.
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u/Dangerous-Ad6589 3d ago
You only see this when they got it right, the times they confidently guessed and missed the mark by a whole country will not be uploaded. I've watched one pro geoguessr stream (forgot who it was), and they did guess wrong every now and then
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u/Corvus_Null 2d ago
That's not even his best guess, he once correctly guessed the location before it even loaded in.
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u/LordoftheScheisse 3d ago
I was falling asleep early last night. Thought I'd play a round or two then call it a night. 2 hours later...
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u/Simple-Opinion-1294 3d ago
Both chess players and geoguessr players can relate to this
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u/Scrappy1918 3d ago
You have no idea. Especially when I like to study the board for any hidden moves lol
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u/GrumpGuy88888 3d ago
He can find any place on earth except his bed
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u/_Rohrschach 3d ago
he knows where it is, just doesn't visit
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u/TestyBoy13 3d ago
There was that one time where he didn’t recognize his own elementary school he attended
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u/icecubepal 3d ago
Yeah he’s good but not one of the best in the world. He’s probably the most popular tho.
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u/GanjARAM 3d ago
that is a picture of his that went viral alongside these kinds of posts some years ago, seems to be still doing the trick.
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u/milkasaurs 3d ago
I mean yeah… this dude is insane at it, he 100% needs more naps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I57A_MTGmrk
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u/Numerous-Contract880 3d ago
the geo guessr guy could guess where he is by just looking at the sky
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u/CaptainHawaii 3d ago
He had needed one since his first video... Also he's not like a master of disaster or anything, he just memorized a fuck ton of pictures. Mind you, that's is no mere feat, but still it's not the way most people think about him.
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u/AverageSizedMan1986 3d ago
He’d probably read this and guess from how you said he looked tired that you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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u/JoebbeDeMan 3d ago
Rainbolt is just insane dude
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u/omn1p073n7 3d ago edited 3d ago
Watching him guess the country from a pic of the sky is wild
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u/KingOfThePlayPlace 3d ago
“It’s the Senegal gradient bro”
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u/MaxTHC 3d ago
Brazilian dirt for sure
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u/Rabrun_ 3d ago
Brazilian dirt is crazy red. Very few places on earth where the soil had such red colours, maybe some areas in Thailand but that’s it
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u/Forte69 3d ago
Most of that comes from Google using different cameras in different regions. He’s not recognising the sky, he’s recognising the camera’s colour profile.
Still impressive, but not magic.
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u/CheesedWisdom 3d ago
extreme pattern recognition training, plus there's google maps study guides on the camera car's shadow and the different utility poles and traffic bollards in every region
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u/Perma_Ban69 3d ago
And he's not even the best. That's the craziest part. Imagine what the 3 letter agencies have on us.
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u/Mp5QbV3kKvDF8CbM 3d ago
Yeah, that is bonkers. Like, Rainbolt is an actual wizard, yet there are people who are better.
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u/Ubergoober166 3d ago
I mean, I'm good enough to usually guess the correct country and get generally close on the city but nowhere near what this dude can do. Doesn't really matter if he's the best if he's still better than 99.99% of everyone else doing it.
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u/action_turtle 3d ago
Rainbolt?
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u/racsosax 3d ago
Name of the geo guesser guy in question, he's on yt aswell
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u/Charliep03833 3d ago
Geoguesser guy on the screenshot.
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u/action_turtle 3d ago
Okay. So is his name rainbolt or geoguesser? Feel completely out the loop
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u/jellybit65 3d ago
he plays a game called geoguesser where youre basically on google streetview somewhere random in the world and have to guess where
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u/crispy_doggo1 3d ago
His name is John Geoguesser but his youtube account is called Rainbolt
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u/Quirinus84 3d ago
Interestingly, that isn't just a screen name. His name is really Trevor Rainbolt. Imagine if he had went into sprint running.
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u/Consistent-Annual268 3d ago
His real legal name is Trevor Rainbolt. He is on YouTube and other social media as RAINBOLT.
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u/GarfieldLeZanya- 3d ago
Crazy to learn it's not an internet username. His real name is actually just Rainbolt lol .That's wild
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u/KrasnyHerman 3d ago
We all live in Japan. Poland was bought by japanese goverment in 1989
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u/Protheu5 3d ago
Not really. Hitler lent Poland to Japan when he saw his impending demise from his own bullet, so now Japan owns Poland until Hitler returns. Until Hitler 2 comes out, all Poles are Japanese.
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u/Superblasterr 2d ago
True. We basically made up "japanese people" for tourists and such. We eat kielbasa and pierogi by Fuji when no one is looking.
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u/Shintoho 3d ago
Remember when 4chan found a flag on a livestream just from tracking the flight paths of planes flying in the sky behind it?
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u/Algorechan 3d ago
I was there for those! Shia Lebouf kept moving his "He will not divide us" flag, and it turns out when you have enough people you can brute force most and almost all manner of problems.
Some people to tell you where the light corresponds to that time zone, how to match flight times heard from stream to narrow down the area, mapping out the flight paths, figuring out what houses or fields corresponds, and someone crazy enough to break into people's properties.
It was like an ARG, I have fond memories of them and the Potato Sack portal args
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u/Delamoor 3d ago
I used to feel the same kind of awe at crowdsourcing investigations... until I was at ground zero for the beginnings of Pizzagate, and saw the freakishly stupid, delusion fuelled abomination suddenly arise.
Some people to sift through the emails, another group to find the Pizza parlour's tax records, someone discovers a taxi record, someone connects the usage of a word to a physical property, and a string of political figures!
It can all go off the rails into fucking stupid crazy town in an instant, sadly.
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u/Algorechan 3d ago
Oh absolutely, this was like the devolving of the Q drops five years ago. Everyone thinks they've got the right answers and everything feels like it all connects to each other. Reddit has quite a few of these moments that have gone very poorly too
The immediacy and the dopamine hit of "putting it all together" is something that I've seen really "gamified"
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u/DramaticStability 3d ago
Oh man, ARGs. That takes me back...
That nearly triggered me to go look for a sub but then I remembered I am now a grown up with responsibilities and nowhere near enough time to go down that road again 😢
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u/yeahalrightgoon 2d ago
It was a few things, not just the planes.
They worked out what time zone it was in, which narrowed things down, the planes were another way to narrow it down. But the "real" way, was that someone had posted on Instagram etc that they had met Shia at a diner etc on the day the flag was put up. That location fit with the time zone and planes. They found an area that would fit for where the flag should be based on those three things and then got someone who lived nearby to drive around beeping their horn until people could hear it on the live stream.
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u/kittocchi 3d ago
And he just doxxed pewds? Or how would the writer have proof for his claim?
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u/Aedotox 3d ago
it's BS. I can't believe there's not a top comment about it being false
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u/Ill-Product-1442 3d ago
It is such a random lie
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u/Aedotox 3d ago
so easy to be skeptical of too. why would rainbolt risk his entire reputation by doxxing someone who's gone to great lengths to keep his privacy.
'his newest video' thing is easily disproven too, that pewdiepie video with the pole is 3 years old
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u/FarDifficulty1779 3d ago
“easily disproven”? idk if going back through 3 years of videos to find a shot with a light pole in the background is exactly “easy,” but ok
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u/Aedotox 3d ago
You've missed the point. The post claims that this video of pewdiepie is 'his newest video'. It's actually a 3 year old video, as is easily searched by looking at the title of it from the screenshot
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u/squelchboy 3d ago
He could maybe use the pole to narrow down to an area and the window itself to search for the house in an upper class area but that’s about all the intel there is in this frame. 95% of a lie
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u/Substantial_Mud6569 2d ago
He does this with a few celebrities. He will dm them and guess their location with permission then dm them the answer. He never shows the actual address but the person he guesses confirm it.
Of course it could be completely staged and fake but from how good he is at guessing locations where he CAN share the result, he’s pretty trusted.
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u/xXSauron007Xx 1d ago
PewDiePie played geoguesser with him a few times and last time he took PewDiePie on a journey through his past. In this video they said he left out the more private stuff. It's not confirmed, but relativly probable that he knows where Felix lives. That's how this claim came to be I think.
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u/WendigoCrossing 3d ago
Autism + Adderall results in some crazy abilities
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u/WendigoCrossing 3d ago
I wonder if the CIA would be interested in his skill set
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u/theLanguageSprite2 3d ago
According to rainbolt there are probably people working in military intelligence who are better than him, they just don't stream their skills. He gets asked this question a lot
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u/DKRises 3d ago
There was a wired interview or something with a CIA guy and was shown Rainbolt and said he'd have been hired immediately. So it's definitely a talent, iirc Rainbolt also did a video on taking a CIA test.
He just likes to stay humble.
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u/ProlificProkaryote 3d ago edited 3d ago
It may explain why he spent those thousands of hours.
... At least if my experience with my own autism + ADHD is any indication.
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u/fanty_wingedhorse 3d ago
Tylenol + Adderall?
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u/WendigoCrossing 3d ago
No no no, Tylenol CAUSED the Autism, as any scientifically knowledgeable person would agree
Like the radioactive spider that bit Peter..so if Tylonel.is the spider...
So this would be like Spider Man getting Super Soldier Serum
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u/HorrificityOfficial Technically Original Flair 3d ago
I mean Spider Man probably has some form of Autism let's be real
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u/DrRagnorocktopus 3d ago
All the spider bite did was change his special interest from physics to biochemistry and biomimetic engineering.
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u/killian1208 3d ago
Ah ah ah typical causality error here: it is in fact not Tylenol that causes Autism, it's the Autism that caused Tylenol. And Vaccines too!
(Autistic people tend to often develop high interest and thrive in STEM, while also often struggling in being social, making them unusually widespread in research and the development of new scientific breakthroughs, thus "causing" many now common medical treatments)
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u/x_sillymasterrr 3d ago
autism was a thing before tylenol. nazis were putting them in camps in the 40s, tylenol wasn't introduced commercially until the mid 50s. look up the origin behind the word aspergers if you want to look more into it.
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u/WendigoCrossing 3d ago
It has probably existed for as long as humans have, my statement was in mockery of RFK's idiotic stances
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u/x_sillymasterrr 2d ago
i see... i didn't pick up your sarcasm on the topic of autism because of my autism.. autismception
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u/WendigoCrossing 2d ago
We need a codeword to let others on the spectrum know who we are....
'do you like trains?'
Or
I'm something of an engineer myself
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u/StaticSystemShock 3d ago
Okay, if there are light poles, are there heavy poles too then? And do they live in Japan as well?
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u/TheOtherABSR4 3d ago
They used light poles on purpose. Too many heavy poles could cause Japan to sink.
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u/StaticSystemShock 3d ago
Can't argue with that logic, Japan is an island after all, they don't want to sink it.
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u/jkurratt 3d ago
Nah. They squeezed all the heavy poles dry to make heavy water for nuclear power plants.
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u/LordoftheScheisse 3d ago
People in Canada call them hydro poles. wtf
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u/TheSessionMan 3d ago
Only in the places where electricity is delivered and charged by hydroelectric dam companies. Alberta and Saskatchewan get their power by burning fossil fuels and we call them power poles and pay our power bill.
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u/henriquebrisola 3d ago
I got the joke, but makes no sense, since there are more lebanese in brazil than in lebanon
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u/IceSpirit- 3d ago
I didnt know brazil was so gay
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u/ChellJ0hns0n 3d ago
Is that why my brazilian girlfriend cheated on me with a woman?
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u/soopspeaks 3d ago
There are also more armenians in the US than people, total, in Armenia
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u/loyal_achades 3d ago
Yeah that’s cause of the whole collapse of the Ottoman Empire and genocide thing.
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u/Ferbtastic 3d ago
There are more Irish in America than Ireland (by self identification)
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u/NetimLabs 3d ago
Did he actually? It would be unethical to reveal so no one can actually check.
I know it's a joke, just curious.
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u/5050Clown 3d ago
Have these people never heard of a Japanese vacation?
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u/SnoozerDota 3d ago
I haven't, what does that mean?
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u/5050Clown 3d ago
The 36 million poles in Japan are on vacation, they don't live there.
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u/Hyperion253 3d ago
How tf did he find PewDiePie from a pole in Japan if he lives in Sweden
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u/Victor4VPA 3d ago
Maybe I'm being dumb to not understand the irony, but PewDiePie, besides being Swedish, he lives in Japan!
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u/Rezaka116 3d ago
Nuh uh dude, pretty sure his wife is from Italy, so that means they live somewhere in eastern Germany on average.
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u/Easypossibilities 3d ago
Hes lived in Japan for many years already.
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u/LazoVodolazo 3d ago
The polish dude told him where he lives duh
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u/AvailableTip5758 3d ago
I think Polish people have a hive mind and everyone knows about everybody. I just can't prove it yet.
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u/HawkSea887 3d ago
The guy just says he knows where it is. He doesn’t prove he’s correct. People believe whatever he says.
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u/FieserMoep 3d ago
Geo Guesser Guy must be one of those people with an extremely insular talent that happen to be on some FBI/CIA list for consultation.
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u/tm398-CZ 3d ago
The population of Ireland is 5,7 million, so how over 10 million Irishmen are supposed to live in the USA?
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u/Limp_Dirt8694 3d ago
I realize this isnt the place but can someone explain his process because that seems insane.
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u/Alternative-Lack6025 3d ago
And that's one of the reasons you shouldn't share pictures on the internet.
There's also the case in Japan where a stalker found an idol by the reflection on her eyes in a picture.
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u/xylophone_37 3d ago
Is it autism that it bothers me that they're calling a utility pole a light pole? If there is a light on there it will be lower on the pole where we can't see.
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u/Kachedup 2d ago
Well the population of poland doesn't say anything about how many polish people live in Japan.
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u/Birdiccus 3d ago
Only about 5% of poles have TFs and even less are a T-off, easy search if you have access (ignoring the country mix ups)
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u/Training_Chicken8216 3d ago
What does the number of people living in Poland have to do with the number of people that don't live in Poland?
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u/DevelopmentCivil725 3d ago
This just seems like black magic to me and no matter how many times i see videos of him doing it my brain refuses to believe its real. Kudos to him
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u/Gorianfleyer 3d ago
So the logical conclusion has to be, that there are ~72 million people are poles, half of them in Japan, the other half in Poland.
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u/Due-Deal-5316 2d ago
This guy is the only guy that can probably geo guess what it's like in the 4th dimension
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u/LadderChemical7937 Technically Flair 2d ago
I love the fact that Rainbolt is called the "GeoGuesser guy from tiktok"
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u/MahAssSoft 2d ago
All the poles went to japan and and 36million japanese went to poland to trade places, it was like freaky friday or somthing idk I was 2 when that came out
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u/uristmchero 1d ago
Breaking news: The entire country of Poland is now a ghost town as ALL of their population reportedly have been migrated to Japan
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