A nineteen-year-old has proposed to his 76-year-old girlfriend. But many social media users were quick to troll the couple's age gap as they announced the news on TikTok.
Giuseppe D'Anna, 19, has taken the Internet by storm after announcing the news in a video. The teen, who has more than 191,000 followers on the video-sharing platform, posted a compilation of images on Tuesday, showing him kneeling on his right knee in front of his girlfriend.
He is pictured holding more than a dozen huge balloons in the shape of a heart and passionately kissing his partner, reports The Mirror. The video, which has been viewed over 138,500 times, is captioned 'La nostra promessa' which translates to 'our promise'.
The compilation of images also features a selfie of the pair and a photo of Giuseppe wearing what appeared to be a gold chain and his bride-to-be holding a rose. Guiseppe also shared an image of the ring with which he proposed.
In spite of the trolls’ reactions, he captioned this: ''And this is only the beginning of a long series”. The post left many people speculating about why Giuseppe may be with the older woman.
Some comments on his TikTok content suggested some thought he was chasing her will, with one person commenting: “Oh she rich...We all know what he in it for”. Another person was convinced he wanted a Sony PlayStation 5.
And someone else did some maths and wrote: ''She is literally old enough to be his great great grandmother.' Giuseppe's fiancee has also been called his grandma on several occasions.
But the teen was insistent their relationship was real, hitting back at commenters to say: ''my love is beautiful [heart emoji]''. The couple has also managed to gain some supportive fans, with one TikTok user commenting: “Y’all quit being mean.
“They actually look adorable and for being 76 or 74 she looks so much younger…”
It is not the first time a couple with an age gap has gained attention on social media. Earlier last year, The Mirror reported on a couple that got married just three months after meeting on YouTube during the pandemic despite their 28-year age gap and only meeting up in person three times.
Sarah Henderson, human resources and technical recruiter from Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, first met her husband pet services business owner Darin on YouTube at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in October 2020. Sarah, 26, started an inspirational self-improvement YouTube channel called Your Ideal Self while Darin, 54, launched a channel about dogs called Dog Guy Darin around the same time.
Darin from Kansas City, Missouri initiated a conversation with Sarah after seeing a comment she'd left on a video and the two started talking and soon became firm friends. Sarah fell in love with Darin's young-at-heart outlook on life while Darin was taken by the way in which Sarah inspires him to eat healthier and exercise so that they can live a fulfilling, long and happy life together.
They met up for the first time in November 2020 then again in December, before Sarah proposed to Darin in January 2021. The couple got married on January 20, 2021, within three months of knowing each other and haven't looked back since.
Sarah has now moved to Missouri to live with Darin and they are living happily together.
