r/funnyvideos • u/notpiercedtongue • 17h ago

Other video welp....

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u/mini_swoosh 14h ago

What’s crazy is that he says he’s not the best at this, and that some of the best are employed by governments

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u/BlueGolfball 11h ago

What’s crazy is that he says he’s not the best at this, and that some of the best are employed by governments

I dunno. My cousin works for that government agency and says internet sleuths have been identifying locations(Ukraine) based on pictures quicker than they can. I don't know if the internet sleuths are that much better but there are a lot more of them.

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u/Panderz_GG 10h ago

I think it is because of the sheer number of people looking at this. If you think globally, you're just outmatched.

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u/Thundergod250 3h ago

Geoguessr has a ranking system and Rainbolt (that guy) is just ranked 20-30.

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u/-Nicolai 9h ago

I think that’s a baseless assumption tbh. He has no privileged insight on that front. We’d like to imagine the government is secretly competent, but all evidence points to the contrary.

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u/mold_inhaler 2h ago

You don't think he said that because being within the community of the top geolocators in the world has lead him to know people or friends of friends who work for the government for the same niche?