A mysterious gambler won over $1 million on Polymarket by accurately predicting Google’s 2025 most-searched person, raising questions about insider information.
The Mystery of AlphaRaccoon
At the end of 2025, Google released its annual list of the most searched people in the world, and an internet user using the pseudonym AlphaRaccoon enriched himself by over a million dollars. This was a reward for nearly flawless intuition. AlphaRaccoon predicted what most analysts failed to notice.
Contrary to widespread assumptions, neither Donald Trump nor Elon Musk made it to the top of the popularity ranking. Even Taylor Swift and members of the British royal family were missing from there.
The Unexpected Winner
First place went to a figure who broke through to the global audience through TikTok: 20-year-old d4vd, an American singer combining indie rock with r&b.
When AlphaRaccoon placed his bets on the predictive platform Polymarket, the musician’s chances of becoming the leader in Google searches were estimated at 0.2 percent. After the list was published, the bet worth less than 11 thousand dollars turned into a 200 thousand dollar profit.
Questions About Insider Information
Such impressive accuracy immediately raised suspicions that it was not extraordinary insight but access to confidential information behind it.
Programmer Mety Jeong Haeju wrote on X, “This is not just a lucky streak” after discovering that AlphaRaccoon won 150 thousand dollars in November for indicating the exact release date of Gemini 3, Google’s latest artificial intelligence model.
Although no hard evidence was found that the mysterious player works for Google, his win intensified concerns that predictive platforms enable earning from market manipulation and help scammers hide from law enforcement.
