Filian ARG: Phase 0
Phase 0 is the first part of the Filian ARG. It runs from Filian's final hardcore Minecraft marathon in December 2025 to the removal of her social accounts in May 2026. It is the phase with the most clues: livestreams, videos, a Discord server, a Minecraft server, and a fake Windows 95 desktop.
Much of this page is based on the Filian ARG archive on Google Drive, kept up by the community, and its living document.
How it started
Filian's hardcore Minecraft marathon with Neuro-sama, Vedal and Crelly ran from 5 to 9 December 2025. Her screen glitched during it, knocks were heard, and she said she was running out of time. At the end she played a short clip, about a minute long, with a link visible for a frame. The link led to a YouTube channel named "time is up".1,2
Clues, in order
- The clip and the link (9 December 2025). The link led to the "time is up" channel. Its first video, a black screen fading to purple, has a title that decodes to "red herring".1
- "Time is up" channel. The channel was created on 5 December 2025 and posted a few videos and four livestreams between 9 and 19 December. The streams used black screens, looped music and sound effects. Their titles and descriptions held ciphers that the community decoded, including "keep going" and "closer".1
- A Discord server and two YouTube Shorts (16 to 19 December 2025). The last video's description and Morse-like beeps pointed to an old Short on Filian's own channel, posted on 22 June 2022, whose description now held an invite to a Discord server.1
- A Minecraft server (20 December 2025). Voice channels on the Discord played a sound clip. Its spectrogram gave the address of a hardcore Minecraft server. The address is not reproduced here.1
- Temple and website (24 December 2025). A temple in the End of the server had a sign with a hex code. It decoded to blackfile-index.org, a website with a terminal.1
- The desktop (3 January 2026). The site's README began a five-day countdown. Its end unlocked a simulated Windows 95 desktop with a locked file, "CITF_MEMO.tif".1
- The Konami code (17 March 2026). Entering the code on the desktop played a riddle. Its answer gave coordinates on the Minecraft server. Those coordinates led to Shremple, a structure found on 18 March 2026.1
- Shremple raids (25 March and 2 April 2026). Players defended the structure against raids of hostile mobs. The community treats the spawned cats and a cow as the last confirmed event of this phase.1
Removal of the accounts
Filian's official YouTube channel lost videos in several waves:
| Date | What happened (from the community document) |
|---|---|
| 22 January 2026 | 379 videos removed (one note in the document gives 330). |
| 3 February 2026 | 30 videos removed. |
| 16 February 2026 | 310 videos removed (one note gives 303); profile picture darkened. |
| 17 February 2026 | All community posts removed; banner changed. |
| 5 March 2026 | 87 videos removed; one previously hidden video came back. |
| 1 May 2026 | All remaining videos removed, plus the profile picture and banner. The community calls this "The Great Purge". |
The community document says Filian's other social accounts also began to delete content on 1 May 2026, but it does not give the times.1
On 7 May 2026 blackfile-index.org stopped resolving. On 9 May 2026 the time is up channel and the Discord server were deleted.1
Dated events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 to 9 December 2025 | Hardcore Minecraft marathon with Neuro-sama, Vedal and Crelly.1 |
| 9 December 2025 | The ARG clip plays at the end of the final stream.1 |
| 9 to 19 December 2025 | Four livestreams and three videos on the "time is up" channel.1 |
| 16 December 2025 | The ARG Discord server is created.1 |
| 17 December 2025 | blackfile-index.org is registered.1 |
| 20 December 2025 | Minecraft server first joined.1 |
| 24 December 2025 | Temple found; the website is first opened.1 |
| 29 December 2025 to 3 January 2026 | README countdown; desktop unlocked on 3 January.1 |
| 11 February 2026 | "Convo" file appears on the desktop.1 |
| 17 March 2026 | Konami code riddle added.1 |
| 18 March 2026 | Shremple found.1 |
| 25 March 2026 | First raid on Shremple.1 |
| 2 April 2026 | Second raid on Shremple.1 |
| 1 May 2026 | "The Great Purge": videos, profile picture and banner removed.1 |
| 7 May 2026 | blackfile-index.org goes offline.1 |
| 9 May 2026 | Time is up channel and Discord server deleted.1 |
Theories
These are fan theories, not confirmed facts.
- Subliminal reality. The glitch timestamps in the first video decode to letters that can be rearranged into "SUBLIMZNAL". The community has not settled whether this means anything.1
- Backslashes and the number 114. One livestream description had 114 backslashes. A theory links this to an "escape" idea. The author called it possibly wrong.1
- Warden reference. The heartbeat-like beeps may refer to the Minecraft Warden and an ancient city on the server.1
Sources
Filian ARG living document (community-edited Google Doc). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Inc-GwZmbobkwcN2xPC5SraFnnOd8hlrdBVZDSm3AQ0 (sections: Timeline: Hardcore Marathon, The ARG Clip, time is up channel, Discord Server, Minecraft Server, blackfile-index.org, Socials Purges).
↩︎Filian, "HARDCORE MINECRAFT MARATHON, Pt 7", YouTube, 9 December 2025. Removed in May 2026 according to the community document. Not checked directly.
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