Brad Colburn has carved out a genuinely respectable niche: he's the anti-PewDiePie, delivering calm, thorough game walkthroughs without the performative chaos that dominates gaming YouTube. For a teen who's curious about a new release or genuinely stuck in a game, his videos are legitimately helpful.
That said, this is YouTube gaming content, which means it's fundamentally passive entertainment. Your kid isn't building, creating, or even playing—they're watching someone else do it. And the games Brad covers skew heavily mature: horror, violence, complex narratives meant for older teens and adults.
The channel itself is professionally run and non-toxic, but it lives on YouTube with all the attendant concerns: open comments, algorithmic recommendations that can lead anywhere, and the very real risk of "just one more video" turning into an hour of screen time.
If your teen is genuinely into gaming and uses Brad's content as a research tool before buying games or to get unstuck, that's defensible. If they're just passively consuming walkthroughs of games they'll never play? Time to redirect. Brad's one of the good ones in his category, but the category itself is still just watching someone else play video games.








