Filian ARG: Phase 1 (The Wall)
Phase 1 is the first public part of the Filian ARG that has a website. It opened on 1 June 2026 with The Wall, a shared pixel canvas on filianislost.com. It ran until Phase 2 was announced on 17 June 2026.
Much of this page is based on the Filian ARG archive on Google Drive, kept up by the community, and its living document.
Before the Wall
On 29 May 2026 filianislost.com changed from "HAVE YOU SEEN HER" to a countdown labelled "Phase 1". The page had an e-mail sign-up box. The countdown ended on 1 June, Filian's usual stream time.1
The same weekend, a QR code linking to the site appeared in an advertisement at the German convention DoKomi. A re-upload of that ad, titled "Dokomi Filian Ad", appears on YouTube and was dated 31 May 2026 (Pacific time).2 The community document says the ad shows Filian's voice with the lines "Wo willst du hin?" ("Where do you want to go?").1
What it was
The Wall was a pixel canvas over a stock image of a wall. Players placed pixels on a refresh timer. The site also had a leaderboard, and a section for user-submitted "signals", which the community document describes as grassroots-style advertisements for Filian.1
Updates came from e-mails to subscribers and from the official X account @THE_W4LL_.1,3
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 29 May 2026 (about 03:34 UTC) | Site changes to a Phase 1 countdown with an e-mail box.1 |
| 1 June 2026 | Countdown ends; the Wall opens.1 |
| 5 June 2026 | E-mail: "Double Paint Weekend" and a top-10 leaderboard poster reward. The doc says the double paint event actually ran three weeks later.1 |
| 10 June 2026 | A community poll wipes the bottom-right quarter of the wall.1 |
| 17 June 2026 | Official post on X announces Phase 2 and a billboard in Shibuya Crossing.3 |
Aftermath
Phase 1 ended with the top-10 leaderboard painters on the list for posters. Posters were promised by e-mail in July 2026.1
Sources
Filian ARG living document (community-edited Google Doc). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Inc-GwZmbobkwcN2xPC5SraFnnOd8hlrdBVZDSm3AQ0 (sections: Phase 1 Timeline, Current Status).
↩︎"Dokomi Filian Ad", YouTube, uploaded 31 May 2026 (15:25 Pacific time, per the video's metadata). https://youtu.be/1zVfLq0TWG8
↩︎@THE_W4LL_, X post, 18 June 2026 (02:23 UTC). https://x.com/THE_W4LL_/status/2067433113152573912
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