The Play triangle, rotated ninety degrees by forum posters until it overlaps the Sigil of Lucifer from an eighteenth-century grimoire.
Documented
A real sigil, a manufactured match
The Sigil of Lucifer enters the record through the Grimorium Verum, an eighteenth-century grimoire of demonology, later adopted by modern occultists as an emblem. The Play mark is a right-pointing triangle descended from the universal media play icon, drawn in Google's brand palette. The viral overlay works only after rotating the logo ninety degrees.
Assessment: Documented: the grimoire is genuine, the logo's lineage is ordinary, and the alignment is produced by the accuser.
Stories
The overlay genre
The claim lives in forum threads where the rotated overlay circulates as proof, usually packaged with Chrome's 666 reading and the wider big-tech-occult genre. No designer, brief, or document has ever tied the two marks together.
Assessment: Stories: an overlay without a provenance. The grimoire predates Google by two and a half centuries.
Interesting claims
Geometry's short vocabulary
The sigil was always a kind of play button: occultists describe it as an instrument of invocation, a thing you engage to summon. The resemblance says less about Google's designers than about how few shapes humans have for pointing at power.
Assessment: Interesting: both marks are arrows aimed at the unseen. Coincidence thrives where geometry runs out of options.
Sources and further reading
Grimorium Verum, 18th-century grimoire, first documentation of the Sigil of Lucifer
Wikimedia Commons, Grimorium Verum Full Sigil of Lucifer.svg, for the actual geometry
Google Play brand guidelines: the play-triangle mark in the corporate palette
Worth asking
If the evidence must be rotated to fit, which of the two images is doing the accusing?