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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.
i also got real weirded out by that, but i decided to check it out closer:
Edit: apparently this is a font thing! those last two symbols are supposed to be koppas. lots of people reacted to this so there’s quite a bit of discussion. i’m assuming gog don’t test on every email client and os combination possible, so it’s a bit more understandable.
You think this is a font thing and not a Nazi thing? I bet you thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that Iran was days away from a nuke lol.
i’m just reporting what i found.
They are koppas as far as I can tell. Which, is interesting given that the GOG account said:
yeah sowilo makes more sense geographically but i still don’t know what the association wourd be other than nazis…
But why use koppa’s? Two of them? What’s the connection to “slavic adventure” other than that they look more like the SS “runes” than the sowilo rune?
yeah :/
Greece, famously slavic. (/s)
If it was supposed to be that, they should’ve used U+03DE Ϟ Greek letter koppa, that would’ve likely went under the radar for most, but then it might also miss the target audience, I don’t know, it’s hard for me to assume good will here, unfortunately
yeah i can’t really find any other association either. i just don’t really want it to be that.
I’m sorry but this is just a excuse they are using. This kind of thing is not a accident in the current climate. Please do not fall for it.
i’m just reporting what i found. the guy in the post is also not affiliated with gog.
also, let’s say gog are nazis. aren’t they polish? isn’t their symbolism law really strict?
If the last two symbols are supposed to be coppas it would make it worth though, since that has nothing to do with the sun, unlike the sowilo rune
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.
this is nazi shit, in the same way that someone sending you “hey pretty do you want to have some 🍆🍑💦” is not inviting you to drink a peach-eggplant cocktail.
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.
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.
Edit: okay the kolovrat is iffy. the new version of that religion is very racist.
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.
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Yeah … that’s the real smoking gun, though. That’s what tips it past being ‘possibly an accident’ and into ‘GOG needs to find and fire their Nazi communications staff member’. (And in either case, they really should be issuing a very public apology.)
I wonder if any media environment has tried to normalize the use of images synonymous with fascism and colonialist genocide around you, provided it has at least a paper-thin explanation 🤔
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Because there isn’t any other symbol left that doesn’t looks like nazi shit for them to use.
If you’re saying “it’s so hard to find something that isn’t associated with Nazis”, I think the problem is youEDIT: Got Poe’s Lawed! Lol
I thought my comment was quite clear, so I didn’t use “/s”
Lmao my bad!
Just use /s when making a sarcastic comment no matter how obvious, even in person it’s sometimes hard to read sarcasm
An email without symbols would also be acceptable. Just saying.
See? This is already much better than GOG’s email.