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Some people have been blogging by their journey to Europe, but they're not your typical travel bloggers.

They're undocumented migrants passing into Europe illegally.

Yeah, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Masha Allah.

But they're documenting their wild journeys for fans back home and building a cult following in the process.

And, well, happy D is one of, um, hey left Morocco in 2019.

Frustrated that he couldn't make enough money to live, he flew to Turkey to work as a barber and then decided to head north to Italy.

He's traveled by boat by bike and even in the undercarriage of a truck.

Um, I imagine model with so called and he's filming every dramatic twist.

But if he's trying to stay under the radar, why is he broadcasting this to hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube?

We're on the way to meet side by Azeri, who's a youtuber who has almost 1.5 million views on his channel.

He left Morocco last year and flew to Turkey in three months.

He traveled through five different countries to get Italy.

Video refreshes I bring a refreshing at first side was recording the journey for himself.

But that changed when you got arrested in Greece.

Towards the beginning, the journey seemed kind of fun, like an adventure.

So do you think that that might encourage more people to try to take it?

Sides and actor with a degree in geography Beeman uh, having Children were a little bit and now around suburbs.

Yeah, while we're talking, his phone is constantly buzzing.

Hey, there is a little useful little Some thing isn't just a political statement.

It's a community to a group of people far from home looking out for each other because whatever the YouTube channel suggest, this journey isn't easy.

Anwar's in Bosnia, passing through a country still showing the scars of a war almost 30 years ago.

E He's been trying to follow the same route as side, but he keeps getting stopped by police for a month.

He's on the doorstep of you Still not much closer to Italy at the Croatian border.

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Instead, he says, he got us faras Austria in the undercarriage of a lorry.

Austrian police drove him back to Hungary.

Hungarian police drove him back to Serbia, and the Serbian police drove him all the way to the south.

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Like Zelic Leonora Anwar is aware that it could seem that he's giving people tips so they could make this journey.

But he sees it differently or three from stash stash family video on such a she worried about.

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In the summer, seven people tried to cross the Serbian border in a shipping container.

They were found dead four months later in Paraguay.

One of them, Ahmed Ball Melody, was Anwar's friend.

Rory, have a critical Hello Donald didn't have a lot of We were hoping to speak to Anwar again.

But it seems like some of the other people that he's traveling with have put pressure on him not to talk to us.

So the only way we've been able to speak to him today is by voice note.

We were in touch for a week and then he went quiet.

Anwar inside don't make money from their channels.

But some other people have figured out how to cash in.

Just looking at some of the comments underneath Anwar's posts.

There's a post here which has a phone number.

It says of a Moroccan guy in Turkey who could help you travel by truck to the Czech Republic or Slovakia.

We contacted the number pretending to be a single moment.

He wants to get to Austria illegally with her daughter.

A man on the other end says he can arrange travel e get yourself that you will be open.

Yeah, he sent an example of the fake documents he can produce and said an associate will collect us from the airport in Turkey.

YouTube told the BBC they remove any content advertising illegal services on their platform.

The posts have now been removed, but they were on the site for a least two months through their YouTube channels side and Anwar had become friends.

Take a person, but he's only getting by on odd jobs.

Europe is a complicated dream just cause you how long, you know, Way met in Italy.

Side was worried Anwar hadn't posted on his YouTube.