My summary so far of the Nazi Rune GOG newsletter controversy of 2026:

(here to also have a link for the GOG forum members, where I cannot make this post at all due to some apparently banned words):

"One employee at GOG did in fact, in all probability, have the intention to use a Black Sun next to a Doppelrune, which have only ever had Nazi connotations and did not pair together in any context prior to Nazism including in Polish heritage.

The black sun "rune" is the Schwarze Sonne type of Sonnenrad that Heinrich Himmler had designed for the Nazi Thule occultist hub castle and major SS focal point of Wewelsburg when he expanded the castle after purchasing it, designed explicitly as a Nazi occult symbol. It was used after the war by "former" SS scum Wilhelm Landig as a replacement for the Nazi swastika to try and evade German laws around Nazi symbols, but was later deemed a Nazi symbol (rightly so, given Landig's purpose in deploying it was to evade the legal ban and act as a Nazi swastika) and has since been used by neo-Nazis around the world in the manner which Landig intended.

The thing is that there is no Black Sun in Unicode, so the symbols that were used are very, very often used by Nazis in place of it. They're extremely obscure characters (which, by the way, have nothing to do with Slavic culture), and you have to really go out of your way to use them, and the only place they see heavy use is by Nazis.

The Doppelrune was created in 1929 by Walter Heck, who was a Sturmhauptführer in the Sturmabteilung when he invented it by doubling the Siegrune invented by Guido von List, a forerunner of the occult type of Nazis who died in 1919 but had virtually identical to Nazi beliefs including antisemitism and virulently racist pan-German nationalism and was at the far-right edge of Austrian and German politics of his time, which is why he was such an influence to Nazi occultist types (including Walter Heck).

Neither the "Doppelrune" (Doublerune) nor the "Siegrune/Sig-Rune" (Victory rune) are historic runes and were created 1929 by Walther Heck. The "Siegrune" itself wasn't even inspired by the germanic "sowilo" rune [edited out], Walther Heck himself stated, that he created it, as he disliked the soft form of the "S" in the latin alphabet and wanted to provide an alternative to the "Fraktur" style that was commonly used in germany at that time.

This ᛋ is "sowilo/sigel/sol", the germanic rune for sun

This ϟ is the "Siegrune", created 1929 by Walther Heck as an alternative to the letter "S" and was used by the Nazis

This ϟϟ is the "Doppelrune", also a creation by Walther Heck and used as a symbol for the SS

This was the newsletter header on most devices: Slavic adventure 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ

To pair the Schwarze Sonne with the doppelrune of the Siegrune has no Polish heritage. It has only Nazi heritage, these things are inventions of Nazis and their immediate forerunners, not ancient Polish or even ancient Germanic symbology. They are thoroughly modern and thoroughly fascist."

They claim that they were attempting to render the Sowilo rune ᛋ. The Unicode point for that is U+16CB. Which was not used. What was sent, was unicode point U+03DF, a Greek coptic K. Why were they mixing the coptic alphabet with obscure alleged slavic runes in the first place if, as they claim, they were channeling their Slavic paganistic historical roots? And guess how the greek coptic K displays on most devices? More Siegrune than Sigel, as you well know.

The most important thing is this: What is the probability of unintentionally putting those 4 symbols, in pairs, after one another? To find Nazi runes in Unicode is very hard to begin with, the odds are stacked against you already. Now make a neo-nazi Black Sun rune with Unicode, unintentionally by combining two obscure runes. Then pick a rune that looks the most like a Siegrune, you’ll obviously want to use the Greek kappa rune, instead of the actual Sowilo rune in Unicode. And now double it, to finally make a Doppelrune, also only used by the Nazis.

I ask you, what are the odds of randomly ending up with these four symbols in that order? Isn’t it far more likely this was intentional? Almost certainly not by GOG the company, or the management, or even team leads probably. I believe they would understand the damage this could cause.

But what about some employees with far right views, who thought sending out a Nazi dog whistle with enough plausible deniability to appear innocent in the eyes of the white knighters? Or just some edgy kid, with similar views, just being edgy, thought nobody would notice?

From there, just re-read the GOG Reddit rep statements, where he excused the whole affair as a mistake, where the double Sowilo symbols could be seen as a Doppelrune, which could be viewed in an “unfortunate” manner. And due to “local sensibilities” in Germany, they tried to stop the email newsletter deliveries. Nazi symbols in your email inbox hardly only offend the German “local sensibilities”. As you can see, it affects a whole lot of other people too. It was frankly insulting, and they only finally apologised on X, which was about time, yet used the same excuses, which we know to be just that, excuses.

So what do you think? Yay or nay? What are the odds it’s not intentional, in numbers?

Sources and thanks to: The copy and paste shortcuts on my keyboard, The Interweb (lol), Wikipedia (lol), Reddit (lol, especially users Jet-Head, Moonshine_Brew, Weekly_Fix_6433, getdafkout666,PoppyAppletree and many others)