Matthew Tye (born December 27, 1986), also known as Laowhy86 or C-Milk, is an American YouTuber, political commentator, travel and vlogger.

He received an offer to teach English as a second language in a school in Huizhou in the Chinese province of Guangdong, and promptly moved to China.

[8] Tye immediately booked a flight to China after being offered a job to teach English in Huizhou, Guangdong.

[9] At the beginning of his YouTube career, he produced positive content about the country, comparing American and Chinese cultures and covering what it was like to live in, and travel through China.

[1] Tye said the content of the videos grew less positive in 2016 with the rise in Chinese nationalism, spearheaded by Xi Jinping's policies.

According to Tye, the employee initially brought them to film nomads in the region but became unhappy with them after reading negative comments on a Chinese website about their YouTube content.

"[3] After he went back to Huizhou, a friend informed him in early 2018, that members of the public security bureau there had shown his photo in bars and establishments frequented by foreigners.

The government authorities accused Tye of using a drone to create an aerial video that showed a Huizhou military base.

[10] In July 2020, he uploaded a YouTube video about escaping from China and in one year, it attracted over 10,000 comments and over 1.25 million views.

[3] According to the conservative Brazilian newspaper Gazeta do Povo, Tye had interviewed Chinese people without securing a required journalist's license, which was why he had to leave the country.

[22] Tye published a YouTube video on April 1, 2020, regarding the COVID-19 lab leak theory and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

In the video, he stated that a woman had responded to a WIV job posting shortly prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, called her the likely patient zero, and named her as the student Huang Yanling; Tye said she had vanished.

[23] In an op-ed for CNBC, Paul Wolfowitz and Bill Drexel said that Tye had "discerning criticism" of the World Health Organization's actions regarding China.

In the same op-ed, Wolfowitz and Drexel claimed that Tye was subjected to an endless stream of cyberharassment from "wumao" and Chinese Communist Party supporters.

Branding him as a white supremacist, they were able to cut into his income and viewership by "demonetiz[ing]" his YouTube uploads.

Tye's sponsorships, which made up most of his revenue, were severely cut after companies became worried about offending China.

[25] The pro-Bolsonaro Brazilian newspaper Gazeta do Povo's Bruan Frascolla said, "If you understand English, I will highly recommend Matthew Tye's channel.

[2] In 2021, the company Hong Kong Pear Technology emailed many YouTubers, including Tye and Sterzel, offering to pay them for posting on their accounts an ad for Hainan province, which is frequented by tourists for its beaches.

The duo cited their interaction with the company as demonstrating China's ability to spread disinformation by paying off influencers.