The ‘Brantford Boomer’ is going viral what really happened? [Video]

An image of a retired Liberal supporter looking into a camera and giving the middle finger with both hands has gone viral — especially in right-wing social media circles — as the “Brantford Boomer.”

The brief interaction between the supporter and a cameraperson was just one of many confrontational moments that took place earlier this month between people in line to attend a rally for Liberal Leader Mark Carney in Brantford, Ont., and people there to protest it. In the hour or so before the event, there were several more uses of the middle finger, terse exchanges between rally attendees and protesters who shouted slurs and repeated conspiracy theories.

But it was double bird gesture that inspired countless memes, spinoffs (like a parody X account) and expressions of outrage, including one reaction that notes the photo “will define this Canadian election.” Matt Janes, the subject of the photo, told CBC …