An unrelated app sometimes uses PlasmaShell's icon. Why? How?

HELLDIVERS™ 2 on Steam sometimes renders as plasmashell’s icon in the task manager plasmoid:

How is this possible, and why might it occur? It’s really weird, because they shouldn’t have any relationship.

My wife sees this sometimes too. It’s a bug in certain games’ OpenGL implementions.

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Recently, I’ve been seeing the opposite, too. Specifically, https://steamdb.info/changelist/23867813/ shall utilize https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launcher&pcampaignid=web_share’s icon (it’s installed via waydroid-1.4.2-3.fc40.noarch.rpm | RPM Info | koji). What’s interesting is that it’s always the same icon.