[3] He produced an early version of Paper Trail, a minute-long short film pertaining to a neighbor caught stealing newspapers, with director Travis Grant.

Tong described the character as born and raised in Hong Kong,[10] and "a zany Chinese immigrant forced into Canada by his street hustling mother.

After a misunderstanding with YouTube and Google officials, the account had been previously suspended[9] for a period of fourteen days but reinstated and has remained free of controversy for over 10 years.

[10] Gabriella Nomura of The Vancouver Sun has branded Chao as "a breath of politically incorrect fresh air",[2] while Kevin Tang of Amped Asia has called him "one of the most funny YouTube celebrities".

[16] Chao also parodies popular songs, such as the Justin Bieber hits "As Long as You Love Me" and "Boyfriend", as well as criticizing and poking fun at other people, usually with profane language.

Tong – speaking in character – refutes this, stating, in a tongue and cheek manner, that "a FOB is a fresh-off-the-boat immigrant that come [sic] all the way from China to study in North America.

His career continued to evolve in 2018, recurring in 3 episodes as a troubled young man who would soon develop a drug addiction in Netflix’s “Wu Assassins” as “Young Tommy” and followed that with back-to-back appearances in ABC’s “A Million Little Things”, Disney’s “Gabby Duran”, CBC Gem’s “Wild Cards”, and most recently in a Hallmark feature, “The Wedding Season”.