YouTube couple announce split, video goes viral

A video of a famous YouTube couple, David Dobrik and Liza Koshy, has gone viral after the pair confirmed they had split.

It has received over 15-million views so far and counting.

Known as the Posh and Becks of YouTube, the couple confirmed they have not been together for six months.

In the six-minute video, they said that Liza was "going through some issues right now."

In the video's bio, David apologised for not letting fans known sooner that they had split.

"Sorry we didn't let you know sooner... we wanted to be comfortable talking about it :) All is good tho.. Ill be back to putting snakes on liza as soon as I can find a cobra! Love yalll."

You can watch it here. (Also, a handy guide on how to handle a split amicably)

Twitter was devastated with some reaching for tissues while other people thought it was a stunt.