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The "Bro visited his friend" meme template. In panel one, a character says "hi GOG any new deals tod-" and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled "Slavic adventures 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ". In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.
well yea, unicode doesn't include nazi symbolism for obvious reasons, so the nazis have to get creative
i could, with the good faith GOG frankly doesn't deserve, see how the first two symbols could've happened accidentally. but the SS? nah, whoever wrote this email did this 100% intentionally.
tangent: when i went to vilnius a few years ago there was a lot of symbolism that weirded me out and felt kinda fascist. but it turned out it was from buildings that were built in the 1700's, based on baltic legends and traditions. which is what the nazis co-opted. but the people there still had those symbols in their culture.
Unicode does indeed have nazi symbols, since the ss is just Sowilō ᛋ in italics. Or if you prefer ⚡︎ which would be much more apt; neither of which are ϟ which won't look close to either example unless your font is extremely lazily designed. The character used by GOG is not a Sowilō as pointed out so this argument doesn't make that much sense.
Also 𖣐 or ☸ tend to be used more often for black sun than 𖥞, which is most commonly used in reference to charts, not white supremacy.
The AI excuse makes the most sense, as with these unicode symbol names being what they are, it's pretty trivial to get gemini at least to recommend the symbols.
sure it does: 卐
this one is in reference to the swastika used for centuries across cultures, way before the nazis even existed. the nazi one is (usually) angled and thicker.
obviously that doesn't stop nazis from using it, same for the futhark or koppa.
so are the other two. the slavic religions are more than a thousand years old.
We know what these emojis are about when written together, and when written beside “Slavic adventure”. We know how fascists feel about “Asiatic hordes.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Nazi_propaganda#Russians
well the newsletter was about an adventure game based on slavic folklore. like the witcher, that game the gog guys (who are polish i think?) created from famous slavic folklore. i'm not debunking anything anyone is saying mind, i would just rather it not be true.