Does Rainbolt Cheat at Geoguessr?

[@Rangsk]

I think of it like watching a magic show. The reason the audience can believe that it's magic is because they can't put into perspective the insane amount of hours the magician spent on that one trick they just saw over a few seconds.

[@SurroundedByContent]

Yes sir

[@zi8gzag]

an apt analogy

[@Leaferr]

really good analogy

[@Khann_2102]

This is one of the greatest analogies I have ever read

[@kryspy5160]

oh wassup rangsk i love your vids

[@rujon288]

Oscar when he fails the geo rainbolt daily challenge:

[@CollectorsTree-ge6zy]

Lmaooo 😂😂😂

[@Tocinos]

Vladimir Kramnik picks up geoguessr:

[@palmtreegal3]

Lmaoo

[@Spleeefwith3e]

Square 1 nice

[@johndoty3279]

😭

[@werdwerdus]

i think it really cannot be overstated that his clips are just that, clips. these aren't just random games he posts. he's playing over and over again until he gets a good seed that is worthy to post.

[@werdwerdus]

@@AD-tj6uu my point is just that these aren't just one-offs, he's recording many many games and of course he's only posting the best ones. he isn't posting all of the other ones that were bad scores .

[@werdwerdus]

@@AD-tj6uu he's not going to be able to get those scores consistently if he sat down and just played 1 game. it takes grinding to get the really good scores.

[@werdwerdus]

and Oscar showed this in the video, especially the game he played with the round 1 wrong continent. if he was going for a good score to post on tick tock, he would have reset after that guess.

[@AkilZodiac]

@@werdwerdus absolutely, but then i'd also say, so? does that matter. pointing out that a montage is of someone's best clips seems redundant, what's the real point behind even bringing that up?

[@RetsamX]

​@@AkilZodiacthe point is that the people who accuse Rainbolt of cheating could also think that these are his normal games... I have read some of these comments and I left the comment sections dumber each time. Some people are just confidently wrong about GeoGuessr.

[@pizzalemon3454]

He doesnt. Saved you 16 minutes

[@zzzzzz4110]

thank you

[@mettatonfanboy]

sadly, we still gave him a few views

[@thesinfulyogini2073]

We know. It’s just interesting.

[@Smoiiny]

thank you

[@ikeegames]

Thanks

[@LightningEthan]

In short, any average person would obviously think it’s cheating, but once you learn you simply get the vibe by seeing the landscape, how the road looks, road lines, trees, grass, camera generation, colors etc all at the same time

[@jackr888]

@Ezz_Fryou can google it if you want to find the answer lmao. plus this is literally his job and this is what makes the money

[@Mehdss]

@Ezz_Fr Yeah that could've been perfect for a KZbin short

[@h4nv]

I personally never played Geoguesser, and one day I just got recommended these videos on youtube, but regardless of that it was always self-evident for me that Rainbolt isn't cheating, as I just understood pretty much instantly how it works. But regardless of my own understanding, I'll find those videos of this game very stunning and I personally probably would never gain a similar level of experience on this game - so I'll admire everyone who does!

[@Gruwg2024]

@Ezz_Frhe pretty much give his answer by 5 minutes in the video. Maybe its the lower attention span people have

[@Gruwg2024]

⁠​⁠@Ezz_FrI said the attention span not because you but the guy replying about making it a short instead of longer form video. Fair enough that you don’t care about details

[@luva5933]

Please get a 25k for your 25,000th game!

[@shakeweller]

Yeeeeessss❤

[@taylorm1396]

He deserves it

[@user-yv3jy3eo7x]

llolhah+

[@Hnkka]

would be nice challenge

[@DuckOfRubber]

5:51 For all the talk about banning TikTok, its true crime was the normalization of portrait video.

[@Heyght]

True

[@Dogappel]

Yes omg this is the most truest thing ever. And it inspired youtube shorts.💀💀

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

TikTok users will bump into you in the streets as they can no longer see laterally.

[@Heyght]

@@michaelwisniewski6047 Sorry! I couldn't see your gyaat. On God skibidi Ohio

[@clemensruis]

Our eyes are horizontal! 😐

[@notmeowth]

zi8gzag is the first and only youtuber that i know of to have a warning for youtube’s addictive algorithm in the description. 🙏

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

That’s wild I’ve never seen that😂 is that some Australian shit

[@doggyw00f18]

​@@goatpepperherbaltea7895 No he adds it himself. Just looking out for us all!

[@prismatic-bl8qf]

that's so caring man..

[@petrinatost3974]

only un austrasia 😭💀

[@DoiInthanon1897]

Ikr, he’s had that statement written in the description of every video he’s posted since I subscribed to him 2 years ago. Huge respect

[@odduro8751]

The editing is really good, great editor and great zi8gzaG

[@PoisonedArrowGR]

Thank you🫡

[@QStikki]

Ok now explain his black and white, inverted, scrambled, blurred, blindfolded, no monitor, sitting in the other room, across the world, whilst holding his breath under water tik toks

[@Saugatgg]

Same thing

[@ken3243]

its the same thing but it probably just takes longer to get 5 perfect scores

[@Haha-if9qf]

Well i think he just pick the one where he gets lucky but also with a little bit of skill so being lucky Will be easier and he probably has 1000 games and he just pick the one where he had good guesses even the good guesses are not that close like 3000 points

[@Mmorozovsky]

Theyre for the funnies

[@WindowsDrawer]

Yeah he does these checker upside down puzzle black and white inverted 0.1s and that's impossible

[@WillyWoxy]

The Vivaldi remix in the intro is a thing of beauty

[@retomeili6690]

That was really good content. Thanks for explaining how geoguessing works for pros - especially knowing which countries do have google street view was such an eye-opener for me. That alone cuts the difficulty in half, if not more. I'm guessing it's also easier if you're a European and travel a lot. Most times I get a European game I get a pretty good score, because I live in central Europe and traveled a lot. Also traveled around in Brasil a lot, so that helped a lot with the "vibe" there.

[@Canadagraphs]

I actually forget, that when people are watching it on tiktok, they just see 30% of what he sees because of the sites design. Seems even more insane to those who dont realize hes looking at it on a full desktop computer screen, and not a 3X1 inch screen

[@mejsn]

bro just put the hardest classical drill remix in the intro for no reason at all

[@WindowsDrawer]

Vivaldi been dropping some 🔥🔥🔥lately

[@lightninghuff]

I replied that Rainbolt is NOT cheating and a guy claimed I "must not understand the scale [of Earth]." Bro thinks Google is omniscient and mapped Somalia or North Korea.

[@janzwendelaar907]

Also, given that some Pro Players know certain roads, I'm guessing Geoguessr doesn't pick from all possible locations, but only a select few

[@fren_gor]

@@janzwendelaar907 Every map contains different locations + some countries only has major roads on street view, so it's possible to learn them

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

As well as all the oceans (70% of the Earth), Antarctica…

[@liamday453]

@@fren_gorplus a lot of the most popular maps are like made by specific community members its not like youre getting a completely random never before seen location every time. obviously repeats are still very rare

[@flosamuu]

The google car isn't some all-terrain car that goes through mountains, just some select roads lol. Add that to the fact that Rainbolt spends an ungodly amount of time studying road signs, google maps, cars signs, and whatnot and I'd say that it's possible. But a little unbelievable, yes.

[@nilsp9426]

I think this questioning of .1 second gameplay is typical for a broader problem. Many people (I guess myself included, at times) try to explain away things they do not think they can achieve themselves. Be it saying that Usain Bolt or Magnus Carlsen are superhuman or that .1 second Geoguessr is likely cheated. The huge problem I have with that is that it completely discredits the hard work and dedication of others. Be it the tough training routine (including intense work on your own mental) by Bolt or Carlsen, or the 100k games played by Rainbolt. Give these people some actual respect for what they do! Of course, your video wonderfully demonstrates how to properly question outlandish achievements: trying to understand and emulate them.

[@theoneechanman]

zigzag got that Rainbolt haircut.

[@tobbex7372]

The beard then?

[@damonddailey349]

Thats that Geoguessr haircut lol

[@guessr_val]

WELP I'd imagine the short answer is, no 😆great editing btw!

[@CrabMusicCrabMusic]

ah so its clickbait

[@basedboi8852]

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[@Smurdy1]

@@basedboi8852 What's the meaning of life? no.

[@sevendeadlysquids404]

@@basedboi8852 Can women get pregnant? No.

[@ChefGoreb]

@@sevendeadlysquids404 In what circumstance could that be a used as a headline? Betteridge's law only applies to headlines, not any question in general. It's also a law that is a generalization, meaning it's true most of the time, but there are some that don't fit in 😂

[@sevendeadlysquids404]

@@ChefGoreb was just a silly. Same with Smurdy’s

[@Nooticus]

The way you structured and ‘marketed’ this entire video is SO fucking clever. What a genius 👏 legend

[@carrot708]

I see Rainbolt not entering competitions or being competetive top Geoguessr player like, those guys who make "throw the ball into the cup" vines with 1000+ takes aren't faking it. There's no sneaky trickery going on, but they're not going to join a live competetive 'accurate ball throwing' competition

[@rancidblock5615]

He plays a game against 25 pros every day, u only have 1 chance to guess in thsoe challenges and he gets good scores

[@carrot708]

@@rancidblock5615 Yeah but he's playing for fun

[@rancidblock5615]

@@carrot708 idk whats wrong with playing casually

[@kiyzoom]

Love to see how your channel has grown lately. Good for us, cos you'll be motivated enough to create new content=)

[@End1essGa1axy69]

You are defiantly an underrated youtuber man, keep up the mad content, love from a fellow Australian

[@dyj_ah]

the fact that this man predicted a road in Darwin that is literally a block away from my home is the most impressive thing I've seen ever.

[@FED.TK02]

the editing in this is BONKERS

[@houmreu]

Minecraft background music 🔥🔥

[@seito9078]

Any recommendations for guides to getting better at Geoguessr? Ones that will give you very particular information like you did - for example, the black tape on the end of the roof rack being unique to only Ghana. That's all so fascinating to me. Do you all figure it out individually by trial and error and just a huge amount of exposure through playing games, or is there a database of clues that can be learned right away? Great video.

[@zi8gzag]

Plonkit.net is the best site that has tips for improving. Otherwise watching KZbin is very good for learning too!

[@exploreowen]

W zigzag aura intro (also the rainbolt trap music was fire 🔥)

[@greenockscatman]

Seeing that map of actual street maps coverage was a real peek behind the curtain for me, great vid!

[@pinkdragon4830]

That Vivaldi remix was a banger

[@oleksandrsolonskyi2198]

That is some great editing! Keep going

[@Onesert]

5:55 cracked screen protector spotted.

[@h4nv]

When I bought my current phone in 2019, I dropped it to concrete floor within few days, which caused my screen protector cracking from multiple places, long cracks going across the protector. I was so annoyed that I just didn't care and I continued using my phone with this cracked Screen Protector. I removed this cracked Screen Protector only now about half year ago as it had recently started to cause some touching problems. It lasted surprisingly long without any kind of problems regardless of cracks.

[@quandaIedingIe]

you call that cracked?

[@neoqueto]

bro is cracked, let him cook

[@leandrusguy144]

Nice editing for this video dude

[@MrOoYT]

Poisoned went hard af on this one

[@palikliment9814]

Thank you zig8zag, great video and great editing as well! :)

[@miss_B_]

Why are people disliking? He is proving that he's not cheating

[@RipMeGaming]

Because he KNOWS Rainbolt doesn't cheat and is just getting money from his name because Rainbolt is the most popular

[@stealthrazor7314]

Start to do same as rainbol with double games( more exp) and proceed to fail 4/5 by 1100Km , proving the quoted players is cheating but they need to be friends or using his name for views, and works we are here in this YT channel :P

[@OverlyCriticalAnime]

Pretty sure it comes from the guesses at the end. They were pretty poor to be honest and it does make him look like he is cheating since Rainbolt is way more accurate then a pro.

[@RipMeGaming]

@@OverlyCriticalAnime He gets lucky with getting places he KNOWS like frickin Cocoa Island and Christmas

[@OverlyCriticalAnime]

@@RipMeGaming No way he is that lucky every time. His examples in this video prove that. Even the pro could get that much luck. He doesn't really prove or disprove anything besides getting views because he the most popular

[@pepanovakno]

2:54 i would say its Slovenia just because I understand the language

[@Loku84.]

i love how u are so real during ur videos, not fkaing anything. keep it up bro

[@benmulvey8742]

Edit is fire, music is fire, video is fire. This should end up being a top 5 viewed video on the channel

[@hunacean]

Sign: is in slovenian GeoGuessr Pros: as you can tell the 0 is an elongated shape indicative of the ex yugoslavian region

[@Tvngsten]

The black tape is actually present in réunion too, but it's on the back of the car.

[@historyofpeople]

Great video, great editing! Very entertaining!

[@mapriego]

nice editing oscar! you're insane

[@rajajinnah6749]

Editing is done by poison arrow

[@zephyan]

this editing is fire

[@JohSmith]

Man your teeth are so perfect. Not sure what you gonna do with this information but I had to say it. Anyway I love when your breakdown other persons guess like this video, very informative.

[@tenns]

australians are good looking and i don't know what it is.

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

Damn, you are either a dentist or someone who always wanted to be a dentist… 😂

[@xaralampos1990]

You guys taking gaming to a hole next level i think this is geting viral.

[@simonbinet7561]

whaaaaat? you are friends? I just waisted 16 mins of my life hoping for drama! No, fr, keep up the great content and all the best for the WC qualifier! I would really love an explanation for the pixelated black white stuff, especially with things like only looking at the sky. I don't think it is cheated of course, but having played around 400 games, I really cannot fathom how that would work

[@lukecannon]

Get Zigzag’s editor an Oscar ASAP

[@PoisonedArrowGR]

🫡🫡

[@Ethyro]

i see what you did there

[@DownDance]

GREAT choice of background music!

[@harstar12345]

I always find it hard to explain to people how it's impressive what geoguessr players do, but that it's not the same as if you just dropped them in a genuinely random location, and how there are lots of photo metas, location metas, and vibes based on likelihood of a location. This is a good video to explain it, great job 😊

[@foxtrot-1294]

5:16 Fun fact: i live in Rome and that place guessed wrong near rome actually looks like a narrow road next to a lake called "Lago di Nemi". Very impressive

[@reubenmiller-rosenfeld8004]

Bro cooked with the intro.

[@funzionedispari4325]

Vivaldi trap remix goes hard fr

[@ExploringNew1]

I don't know how but I actually became really good at geoguessr after watching you. I guessed France and Iceland in 0.1 seconds in your game. So thank you!

[@Retro_80]

"vibes play a massive part" i feel you man, we all feel you

[@ShadeSpeed]

Its super easy to cheat on GeoGuessr. The lat / lon are literally in the metadata fetched for each image.

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

The part about the map options and the car were really eye opening. It really teaches how to think about problems, instead of simply trying to guess to trying to understand how the people who took it work in the 1st place is such an "AHAAAAAA" moment. The funny thing about conflict of interest in a situation you dont know is that if the only authority that check veracity is INSIDE the community EVERYONE becomes suspicious. I think thats why the Bureaucracy is separate and suppose to be apolitical.

[@Lili-ws3tg]

that edit is fire wth

[@scottycheesecake]

here before the title makes the video blow up

[@fatsnailsavethesnail]

based vivaldi drill enjoyer

[@blenderpanzi]

The black tape is also found in the Google Street View coverage of Reunion, but I'm not sure if that is in the most commonly played GeoGuessr maps. Also Reunion looks quite different to Ghana, so that can be easily distinguished anyway.

[@ArnaldurBjarnason]

2:44 Strictly speaking, that shape is called a stadium. Ovals are elongated circles with no straight lines.

[@ukdnbmarsh]

whoa i guessed Iceland too, its quite distinctive :)

[@Zyect]

great video, I just think you should change the thumbnail to say "cheater?" with a question mark. plain "cheater" sounds like an accusation

[@Shantytune]

Commented this on an older video, but thought it might be more useful on your newest one: I dig the style you're doing with these videos. Maybe just a wee tip, you might want to mimic the style Wirtual uses with his main channel (would definitely take more editing but it will grow your audience exponentially, and I'm all for that)

[@das_eisenherz]

Mustachiolo punching the air rn

[@KingRagnar]

As someone who has streamed Geo. My heart sank slightly when I read the title. I’ve never suspected Rainbolt as I know. If you are that good. You can be that good. I’m so glad this video didn’t go the way I feared. Keep up the great work 💪❤️

[@danijeljovic4971]

1:36 I like how you said "because it's the hilliest" and not "because it looks like a borderline 3rd world country" because you wanted to be nice

[@QCPro]

2:11 is from Slovenia where i live lol :)

[@ArjyanshuPanda-g6g]

Lol😅

[@tarantuIas]

Great editing in this one :)

[@PhatInAHat]

Interesting vid, but it needs a brief intro explaining actually why people think Rainbolt might have cheated and if there are any genuine major accusations against him. From the title and without a proper intro I was expecting this vid to then be news of some recent accusations or controversy that has just appeared and made zi8gzag weighing in with his thoughts necessary. Also, someone viewing this video for the first time without any prior knowledge of who Rainbolt even was would have been completely lost and confused for the first 5 mins of the vid as well as who he is and what he does is given scant mention.

[@alf4152]

love the new style of editing

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

finally i solved the mistery, so zi8gzag and rainbolt are actually two different persons wtf man why you look so alike, first i thought that zi8gzag is a young version of rainbolt, then i discovered these two are not the same guy XD

[@Ed19601]

well if he is able to recognize where a place is by looking for 0.1 secs to half a picture of gras that is pixelated as well, then I have a hard time believing it

[@gewnurb]

the grass being pixelated doesn't really do anything, the grass is only useful in geoguessr due to its color, and it stays the exact same color when pixelating, so it's pretty much like 5% harder than just 0.1 second guesses

[@marlongomezacevedo2170]

@@gewnurb bro is taking on the mantle of professional rainbolt glazer

[@LineOfThy]

@@marlongomezacevedo2170 literally not thinking approach

[@seekthuth2817]

Here's how I'd describe it. He really is incredibly good, but there's a lot that makes it seem a lot more impressive than it is if you don't already know about it.

[@whitneysmiltank]

With a little bit of knowledge about the game (locations and how maps work), it's very clear he doesn't cheat lol. Good explanations.

[@Niro_sounds]

reminds me of how pros on video games like cs and valorant know how to place throws/shots because of their familiarity with the game

[@hevnhevn]

people: *invent something* also people: let's compete in it

[@smad66]

You forgot to mention that alot of his clips are on ADW, an easy map. And he also zooms out instantly to make the guess look better than it was.

[@3_iq_individual]

bro i forgot i had project zomboid open and the music lined up perfectly with the start of the video lmao

[@adamofnotrades]

Dude, nice work on the editing here. Did you edit this yourself? From one KZbin video editor to another, major props. 🙌

[@OfentseMwaseFilms]

I got Iceland right😁👌🏾💯

[@MineVex]

"Geoguesser world cup" holy shit I didn't even know about this

[@Elias4247Bodiiin]

Great Video! i think you deserve way more views and subscribes!

[@user-11Il10I1]

Excellent deconstruction. Basically, the lesson is to practice, memorize and have luck.

[@chickjenman]

petition to get zigzag to 100k

[@swift8821]

Nah rainbolt is cheating and paid Oscar to cover it up. 😅

[@EZPeek]

i agree the whole worldcup is a setup to fool people

[@AgentYK11]

I Dont think that most pro are that good they are just LEDs known BC the Dont so youtube but geting 20000 Score in fast Match is pretty comon at top player level

[@Mmorozovsky]

The fact that you have a blonde white female in the pfp and swift being your username is all i need to know

[@Kwauhn.]

It's kind of nuts that the game doesn't load the image fully before showing it for 0.1 seconds. Huge oversight.

[@Adrak-Hiano]

A shoutout to the editor is always nice =)

[@GoofyGoober7582]

What about that one time when he guessed Mexico and South Africa back-to-back WHILE THE ONLY THING WAS THE SKY

[@freshestavacado9195]

10:35 I was playing along and I knew right away that it was Iceland also (I haven't even played geoguessr yet, just have been watching some videos and am fairly interested in Iceland)

[@lundgamingxd5387]

Amazing music choices!

[@nic12344]

I got the Iceland one (well, I guess Akureyri, but still pretty close) just because I've been there. So I totally get how someone who played thousands of games could guess very well in just 0.1 second! The human brain is just super good at identifying patterns!

[@barleduckgeo]

This is the most explaining youve done in a long time, and its not even on geoguessr explained...

[@lenged3209]

i mean this video is probably just for ignorant people who comment on rainbolt shorts saying that hes cheating without knowing anything about the game so its not a huge surprise it would explain the guesses like we are 5 year olds

[@RetsamX]

​@@lenged3209honestly I think like 0.01% of these people will see this :(

[@laceyjohnson8210]

I already knew the answer was no but you know i clicked the clickbaity title anyway. Glad i did because i actually learned a lot (like I normally do on a zi8gzag video). 👏

[@DanielFreakinAwesome2]

A real expert who can critique another expert

[@Chevifier]

Ive never attempted Geo guesser before but Im from the Caribbean so seeing those palm trees narrowed down the search for me to close to the equator, somewhere warm. I could still be wrong😅

[@wolfganghaiden5817]

i think the more you play the easier it gets. some countries are ridiculously easy as well though, like iceland. even i got that and i am a noob. thank you for your videos mate

[@cameronreid5619]

Conflicts of interest are usually declared upfront, not at the end. That's probably why you ate so many dislikes here, otherwise great watch!

[@thebean3612]

Ur daily uploads are a blessing

[@phantomax]

thank you zigzag for exposing this cheater. i have called the cops on him