David Freiheit (born May 23, 1979), is a Canadian lawyer, former political candidate for the People's Party of Canada[1] and YouTuber under the pseudonym Viva Frei.

[8] For the first few years of his YouTube career, Freiheit was a practising commercial litigator, and he struggled to find time to create his videos.

[11] Freiheit started his YouTube career in early 2014 by posting videos of him lip syncing to various pop songs while running obstacle courses dressed in a full suit.

[24] Before running for the PPC, Freiheit had classified the political stance he takes on his channel as non-partisan,[25] claiming that the internet, through the use of the terms right-wing or left-wing, only succeeds in "pigeonholing, categorizing, dichotomizing, just reducing a complex individual to either right or left in all of their...

[6] In 2019 attorney Robert Barnes began making live weekly Sunday evening appearances on Freiheit's channel.

[28][29][30] He frequently works in person at the Rumble Miami studio,[31] and was attributed by the company as a key legal contributor to their 2022 proposal for an 'open-source content moderation policy and process'.