What is The Goal Of The Left?

The Goal Of The Left is an exploitable four-panel Twitter image from June 2020 mocking a conservative conspiracy claim that pandemic masks were a left-wing plan to put American women in burkas by 2023.

Where did The Goal Of The Left come from?

Twitter user @pappyG45 posted the original mask-to-burka chart on June 19, 2020, and @DeAnna4Congress retweeted it a day later with the caption that supplied the name.

What does The Goal Of The Left mean?

In the original post it referred to a sincere Islamophobic claim about COVID masking, but parody versions use the caption ironically over any absurd 2023 endpoint.

How do you use The Goal Of The Left?

Posters typically keep the 2020 through 2022 mask-escalation panels and replace only the 2023 burka with an absurd endpoint such as a Death Grips album cover or a cat.

Is The Goal Of The Left still popular?

The parody format circulated through late June 2020 but did not sustain regular use beyond that initial run and is remembered as a 2020 Twitter artifact.

The Goal Of The Left

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Published October 28, 2026

In June 2020, Twitter user @pappyG45 posted a four-panel chart predicting American women would wind up in burkas by 2023 because of pandemic masking, and @DeAnna4Congress gave it the caption 'The goal of the Left' a day later. Within a week, posters were replacing the 2023 burka panel with a Death Grips album cover, a cat, and other absurd endpoints.

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Overview

A four-panel source image stacks pictures of the same woman labeled 2020 through 2023, with each year showing progressively more face covering until she reaches a full burka in the final panel1. @DeAnna4Congress's caption called pandemic masks part of a left-wing plan to bring Islam into America, and that wording is what gave the chart its mockable name2.

Parody versions keep the earnest mask-escalation panels but replace only the burka with whatever the author finds funnier, so the gag works on contrast between the serious conspiracy setup and the absurd payoff5. Common endpoints include band imagery and animals, with specific examples ranging from a Death Grips album cover3 to a cat4.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitter

Creator

@pappyG45; parody template popularized via @DeAnna4Congress caption

Date

2020

On June 19, 2020, Twitter user @pappyG45 posted the original four-panel image showing a woman in a surgical mask in 2020 progressing to a full burka in 2023, presented as a warning that COVID masking was a cover for spreading Islam in the United States1. The post itself was a sincere conspiracy claim and circulated inside right-wing Twitter without a defining caption.

A day later, on June 20, 2020, congressional candidate @DeAnna4Congress retweeted the image with the caption 'The goal of the Left,' and that version collected over 2,500 retweets and 3,700 likes2. That short caption is what let other posters point at the chart as a single named target5.

How It Spread

Parody versions started appearing within about a week of the viral caption. User @blvckgovt replaced the 2023 burka panel with the cover of a Death Grips album while leaving the mask progression intact, and that post picked up over 7,300 retweets and 51,000 likes3. User @ZaidJilani posted a version in which the woman turns into a cat by 2023, which drew over 100 likes4.

By late June 2020, the exploitable version was circulating more widely than the earnest original, and 'The goal of the Left' was being used ironically on any image showing a silly four-step escalation5. The format did not sustain much use beyond that first run and is now remembered as a 2020 Twitter artifact tied to early-pandemic mask discourse.

Timeline

2020-06-19

Twitter user @pappyG45 posts the original four-panel mask-to-burka chart as a sincere conspiracy claim about COVID masking.

2020-06-20

@DeAnna4Congress retweets the chart with the caption 'The goal of the Left,' which gives the meme its name and collects over 2,500 retweets.

2020-06

@ZaidJilani posts a parody version where the woman turns into a cat by 2023.

2020-06

@blvckgovt posts a parody using a Death Grips album cover as the 2023 panel, which picks up over 7,300 retweets and 51,000 likes.

How to Use This Meme

Posters typically start with the four-panel source image, keep the 2020 through 2022 mask-escalation panels unchanged, and replace only the 2023 burka with any absurd endpoint such as a band photo, an animal, or a cartoon character3 4. The 'goal of the Left' caption is often included on top so the parody references the original claim it is mocking.