A British student who traveled to Afghanistan for 'adventure' during the Taliban's uprising appeared to delete footage showing his evacuation after facing backlash

• Miles Routledge, the student who traveled to Afghanistan, appeared to delete footage of his evacuation.
• Routledge made waves online for traveling to the nation now controlled by the Taliban.
• People accused Routledge of taking an evacuation spot that could have gone to an Afghan.

Miles Routledge, the 21-year-old British student who went viral after posting on the fringe message board 4chan about traveling to Afghanistan while the Taliban overtook the country, appeared to delete posts on social media following backlash.

Routledge, who has been referred to online as "Lord Miles" after a 4chan account believed to belong to him claimed to have purchased a fake lordship, said he traveled on Friday to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, which the Taliban captured over the weekend, Insider reported.

Since leaving the country on a British military plane on Tuesday, he's faced criticism for going to Afghanistan amid its turmoil for what he told Input magazine was the sake of "adventure."

Now Routledge appears to have deleted at least one video and every written post from his Facebook page, a report from The Independent on Wednesday indicated.

Routledge had written about his situation in Afghanistan in numerous Facebook updates, The Independent reported; on Wednesday, all the posts embedded in that report appeared to have been deleted. Insider found a page believed to belong to Routledge that featured images of him but did not include any posts about Afghanistan.

Routledge also appeared to have deleted footage said to show his evacuation.

In a 17-second video that numerous accounts shared on Twitter, someone who appears to be Routledge reveals a huge aircraft full of people packed together.

-RT (@RT_com) August 17, 2021

Routledge told Insider on Wednesday that "the evacuation took ages and was very up in the air" but that many British soldiers "were in good spirits like myself." He added, "They were tired but glad to be out."

On Twitter, several people accused Routledge of acting out of privilege and taking an escape opportunity that could have gone to an Afghan citizen. Many people in Kabul who want to leave in the face of Taliban rule remain stuck.

-Julien Hoez (@JulienHoez) August 17, 2021

In a tweet with over 400 likes and 100 retweets, the journalist Julien Hoez called Routledge "spoilt" and accused him of taking "a slot that a far less privileged Afghan citizen could have used to escape."

"I increasingly struggle to derive even wry enjoyment from the story of 'Lord Miles' Miles Routledge," another user tweeted. "He went to glibly tool around an active warzone and had to be babied by the army."

Routledge did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment regarding the plane footage.

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