Jay Slater documentary

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Is anyone watching this? It’s so sad. Why are social media morons so convinced that there is something more to this? Feel so sorry for the family watching this.

I'm not finding it particularly sad. He was heavily under the influence and fell.

I'm surprised it got the coverage it did 😔

Sad for the family is what I mean. Yes he was heavily under the influence and had an accident. He won’t be the first or last sadly. But it must be very hurtful for the family to have the level of publicity they had, especially when people are coming up with crazy conspiracy theories and claiming he isn’t really dead when the family have all the evidence that he is.

Toktok houls inserting themselves as main characters. They're not "sleuths".

His poor family, I think it’s hugely upsetting and sad. Those Tik Tok creators should be ashamed of themselves.
He was a teenager who went on holiday, got drunk took drugs (just like thousands of teenagers do every weekend) and had it end in tragedy… His poor mum.

And of course it is a tragedy for the family. He was really very young, on his first holiday with his friends. He only had a provisional driving licence - he was just at the beginning of his adult life.

It's a sign of the times that the media does this. But there are much sadder stories. We've all had our partying days but he made his life choices. Not great choices.

I found it very moving. He was just a kid and made some bad choices (just like my.kid did in the past but thankfully survived them, and actually me too in my young days)

I feel so bad for his family. Poor boy.

The social media coverage of this was pure wild. Same as with the lady that went missing and was found in the river. It opened my eyes up to public perception.

Lots of people make bad choices and live to tell the tale. He clearly misjudged the area and potential danger he was in.

TikTok and YouTube idiots turned a terrible accident into entertainment which in his mums own words made the situation a million times worse. No excuse for that and a very sad sign of the times.

It's not "the media" - it's specific internet sites that enable content like this to be posted - content that was not only grossly disrespectful and devastating for a grieving family but also as the coroner said actually hampered the legal process and in at least one instance - publishing the toxicology report of a private citizen fgs - outright broke the law.

Must admit I felt the same. I also did t understand why the family were giving the conspiracy theorists the time of day. Surely just ignore and don’t engage at all.

I agree with you, was crying at the end. Not only for Jay’s family but because it’s depressing to see those awful people making things up and just looking deranged! They were out to slur Jay and I’d be far more ashamed of them if they were my children than what they wanted us to think of Jay. I am glad the inquest was thorough and that Debbie’s MP is involved in looking into this.

I feel the same, my son is in his twenties now but at 18 he’d go to massive raves and do god knows what.
Like you I did exactly the same at that age! I was telling my husband that I really don’t agree with bouncers in night clubs just chuck drunk teens out, it’s so dangerous.

When I was watching it it struck me that I'd done loads of things like that when young - I wouldn't even say it was bad choices, as that implies ill intent. But ending up miles away from anywhere at some random place with a bunch of shit faced people? Making hamfisted attempts to get back home because I couldn't be arsed to wait for a lift so I could shower, change and go on to the next party? Yeah, that was lots of weekends. I've even tried walking in similar terrain to that shown on the programme, foolishly reckoning that it's just small plants so I can step over them and how hard can it be. (!!) Most young people are focused on partying and bad at judging risk. For the majority, stuff like this becomes stories your mates rib you about, this one time at bandcamp type thing. For this poor boy, it was very different.

Harrowing, a parent’s worst nightmare, I did something similar in Ibiza decades ago, as In walked for 2 hours in unfamiliar terrain in extreme heat with no hydration having partied with strangers all night, bad decisions all round and so many of us have engaged in risky behaviour and lived to tell the tale, this poor family

Why has this case even got a documentary and why did it get somemucb media coverage for a low level criminal drug user?

Because a teenager lost his life in a really tragic.

So sad. There was a lot of sympathy and empathy initially, but the media tore his character to pieces whilst he was still missing, and then the pack mentality of Joe Public piled on and it must have been heartbreaking for his family. We were in Tenerife earlier this year, and some parts of the terrain at a distance look like they could be easily navigated , but close up they’re a mass of crevices and huge rocks.

Well, a few SM Self aggrandising twats have been splashed across national TV as being absolute halfwits of dubious moral character… not anyone I would employ if I recognised them in an interview room.

Very sad for the family, and the SM nonsense tells us quite a lot about how misinformation takes hold and how many truly stupid people walk amongst us.

There are people who's whole careers are dedicated to being social media "sleuths", who have to make 100s of videos to make a living and therefore need to whip up the frenzy. Make anything look suspicious to get views. It's like the y can't grasp there are actual human beings involved and it's not just a drama show

It was fairly obvious roughly what had happened to him from the start. Surprisingly the police aren't that stupid. "Something doesn't add up". It very much does you just can't add.

A young boy dying is always sad, even if he'd made some poor decisions.

I watched it. I felt sad for his family, just ordinary people being catapulted into this awful situation. Jay made a wrong decision and it cost him his life, these social media morons need shutting up with their ridiculous theories, similar to the Nicola Bulley case which exploded out of control.
A nightmare for the poor families x

I cajt understand this either. People have died in tragic circumstances abroad before & since and got nothing like the coverage he got.

Neither did their families get over £70k in gofundme contributions. Did his family ever say what that went on. It was initially supposed to be for his funeral

What channel was it on?

I agree.

Firstly yes it is sad he died, he may not have been perfect and had made some wrong choices that night (and in general) but still, he was barely an adult.

I appreciate they needed some money for his friends and family to fly over there and for the funeral but I don’t know what else they needed it for? 70k is a lot of money!
I am also curious to know what is was spent on. Was this discussed in the documentary?

As bad as the social media/media trolls may have been, Jay did get a lot more coverage than other missing young adults and I suppose the “sleuths” and conspiracies are the downside of that.