YouTuber Who Goes To The Most Dangerous Places In The World "For Fun" Kidnapped By Taliban

So this story has been evolving for awhile now as information isn't exactly broadcasted regularly by the Taliban. This guy Miles Routledge is a YouTuber with about 60,000 subs and 2 million views, (which is not enough to take a trip to the Taliban) regularly travels to some of the worst and most dangerous places in the world for content. He has videos shooting guns with Taliban militants, illegally crossing the US/Mexico border and more. He originally went to Afghanistan for the first time in 2021, months before the Taliban takeover and was forcibly flown out the country by the British military. He returned in 2022 and posted videos in which he joined a Taliban parade and fired weapons with them. 

With the social media world the way it is now and how important content is to some, people continue to press their luck and put their lives in danger for the very powerful phenomenon of clicks on content. We haven't heard from Routledge on Twitter since the end of February and his family and friends don't know if he's alive or dead. According to multiple Twitter accounts, he is being held by the Taliban's General Directorate of Intelligence or GDI, essentially the secret police in the country. 

A British negotiator claims-

“We do believe they are in good health and being well treated,” Richards said. “We have no reason to believe they've been subject to sort of any negative treatment, such as torture. And we're told that they are as good as can be expected in such circumstances.” 

In this situation, my whole thing is: you're doing this 20-50k views a video? Occasionally 75-100k or a big video once in a while? I thought I'd go to this guys YouTube channel and he'd have millions of subs and millions of views per video. He literally has one video with over 200k views. I get you have to build it and they will come, but most of us that are on YouTube aren't risking our lives to hang with terrorist organizations to build a YouTube following. There's gotta be a better way.

Is there any amount of money where you'd willingly to Afghanistan or Somalia or let's say the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico, a place where 5-6 cartels fight currently for drug turf? It cost way more than the few thousand Lord Miles will earn this month on AdSense, that's for sure. Let's hope he makes it back home.