pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder. The older person needs to be 16 or older, have fantasies about prebubescence for at least 6 months and the younger person needs to be prebubescent (5-11 for girls, 5-12 for boys). Nowadays, the decoy always pretend to be 14 or 15. This is not pedophilia. If you claim a person on this show is a pedophile on that case, he can actually sue you because it's a false accussation that can cause a lot of harm
Realisticially, as long as both are adults, it doesn't matter. If the age gap is big, like in asia, then it is often a transactional relationship. But in a woke world where nobody understands what the definition of a pedophile is, everything is a pedophile if they are more than 2 years apart. So wether you are safe to date depends largely on culture. Chris Hansen and Law Enforcement won't care if you wanna date a 20 year old as a 40 year old
TLDR: As long as both are adults, it depends on social acceptance and culture with age gaps. Bth cases you described are normal relationship dynamics in asia