David Freiheit
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David Freiheit
1979 (age 44–45) |
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | YouTuber, Commercial litigator | |||
| Website | vivafrei |
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| Years active | 2012–present | |||
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| Subscribers | 300,000 | |||
| Total views | 70 million | |||
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Last updated: 21 September 2020 |
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David Freiheit (born 1979), is a Canadian lawyer,[2] and YouTuber under the pseudonym Viva Frei.[3]
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Biography
Freiheit grew up in Montreal, Quebec, as the youngest of five siblings.[4] He enjoyed creating videos.[5] He studied Creative Arts at Dawson College and received his Bachelor of Arts at McGill University. He then received his civil law degree from Université Laval where he was the editor-in-chief of the university's law journal.[4]
In 2007, Freiheit began practising law, following in the footsteps of his father and older siblings.[6] He worked professionally for the prominent commercial litigation firm Borden Ladner Gervais for six years,[7] but left to be a freelance litigator after his first child to have a more favorable work-life balance,[3] starting a firm called Freiheit Legal.[8]
For the first few years of his YouTube career, Freiheit was a practicing commercial litigator, and he struggled to find time to create his videos.[9] In January 2018, he discontinued his litigation practice and turned full-time to YouTube.[10]
YouTube Career
Early content and awards (2014-2019)
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.[11] These videos were not receiving many views, so Freiheit decided to try another style; in late 2014, Freiheit started posting nature-related stunts.[12][13] He gained popularity when he posted a video of a squirrel picking up his GoPro action camera and carrying it up a tree.[14][15] Freiheit then started posting videos of stunts involving the use of a drone.[16][17]
In 2016, Freiheit won a GoPro Award for his use of their cameras in his videos.[18] He won a Shorty Social Good Award for Best Overall Youtube Presence in 2017.[19]
In January 2019, Freiheit was invited by GoPro to be a featured panelist at the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.[20]
Style change (2019-present)
From 2014 to 2019, Freiheit had only accumulated around 60,000 subscribers. In April 2019, he decided that since law-related content was by far his channel's most popular genre, he would change the style of his channel and only post vlogs analyzing different current issues from a law standpoint.[21][22] He started a second channel, "Viva Family", as a place to maintain his former content style.[1]
Freiheit classifies the political stance he takes on his channel as non-partisan.[23] He has described his channel as including a "pretty decent balance of left and right".[6]
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