Popular LGBTQ+ website Pink News have faced a furious backlash after sharing a video featuring a same sex couple with a 33 year age gap, who met when the younger man was a teenager.

The British site said that Kayleb Alexander, 22, had met his boyfriend Mark, 55, from Michigan six years earlier, indicating that he would have been 16 when they started going out.

It's since been clarified that Kayleb is 23 years old and met Mark within weeks of turning 17, meaning he was above the age of consent in Michigan.

The now deleted video provoked a furious backlash, with one commenter tweeting: 'Go back to the article and delete it.'

Regardless, commenters were not happy, with one writing: 'This man was 49 years old when he met Kayleb who was 17 at the time and people are defending it because 'as long as they're happy'. '

After LGBTQ+ website Pink News posted about Kayleb Alexander, 23, and his boyfriend Mark, 55, but social media users slammed the site after it was suggested the couple met when the younger man was 16

Another comment online said: 'Pink News, you can do better, please delete this before more 16-year-olds think it's okay for 49-year-old adults to approach them romantically.'

Kayleb, who often uploads videos to his YouTube channel about his relationship with Mark, insists online that the couple met when he was 17.

A PinkNews spokesperson said: 'PinkNews objectively reported on a story about a couple with an age gap, without endorsing any particular point of view.

'The couple are well-known YouTubers, on the channel Kayleb Alexander. Kayleb (the younger member of the couple) stated that they were aged 17 at the time of meeting.

'However, after listening to feedback from readers and viewers, PinkNews decided to remove the content so as not to cause any further distress to our audience nor to the couple who have also been the subject of offensive posts on social media.'

In one video, he said: 'Our age difference is 33 years. He is 55 and I am 22. And this is my first relationship ever, in general. But we're going six years strong… A lot of people assume we're father and son…'

Kayleb's videos are often explicit and overtly sexual, with some titled 'Our Shower Routine', 'Spending Valentines Day with my Daddy' and 'Why older men are better'.

Many users were criticial of the website's decision to promote the couple

With his birthday on 23 June 1996, and the couple celebrating their six year anniversary in July 2019, Kayleb had just turned 17 weeks before he and Mark started dating.

In Q&A videos on his YouTube channel, Kayleb said he met his boyfriend 'when he was in a bad rut'.

He said at the time he was staying with a friend, because he had recently been kicked out of his parent's house.

The couple say they celebrated their six anniversary in July, with Kayleb turning 23 in June - meaning he'd turned 17 weeks before they first got together

Kayleb and Mark often appear in videos together on the younger man's YouTube channel and have called their 33 year age gap 'nothing'

Kayleb revealed he initially thought Mark was 'so handsome, so sexy', adding: 'For a second, I thought I got in the car with David Beckham or something.'

He went on to say that 'having a 33-year age gap is nothing.'

In another video, he revealed: 'Mark is my first boyfriend, he's my first kiss...I didn't know how to kiss, I was so shy when I first met him.'

He added: 'He's the only person that has been there for me, the only person who has shown me love.'

Kayleb admitted in another video that Mark was his first boyfriend and first kiss, saying that before he met the older man he 'didn't know how to kiss'

Users online have condemned Pink News for 'promoting' the relationship, which some slammed as 'problematic.'

One wrote: 'Apparently NO ONE thought this segment through. Not a good look!'

Social media users were aghast after watching the video

One posted: 'I'm sorry but gay or straight this age gap is just predatory to me, and the fact they met when he was 16?'

'I have a 15-year-old cousin and if she told me she'd started dating some 49-year-old she met on a dating app, I'd be Very Alarmed,' another wrote.

After backlash arose around the PinkNews video, the website was quick to update the description to clarify that the two had 'met on Grindr when Kayleb was 17, above the legal age of consent in Michigan,' and 'were initially in a Sugar Daddy arrangement.'

Pink News have since deleted the video and accompanying article from their website.