A T-shirt heads to Chile, and the Wave keeps its appointment

Serge's podcast

Season 1 · Episode 8

The week just gone, told by two voices.

8 min

On Friday, a “Free Human — September 2026 edition” T-shirt headed to Chile. It’s a small line in the numbers, but a real milestone in the story: for the first time, a member bought a FreeWillWave T-shirt, and $7.95 went into the goal open until September 30.

The week was calmer than the previous one in new presences. 350 this time, compared to 464 last week. And yet it was full: 65 different people invited at least someone, India moved ahead of Nigeria for the week, 17,756 energies were sent, and every evening at 18:00 UTC, humans gathered at the same moment for the Splash.

Serge’s sentence last Sunday still sets the tone: “This week, for the first time, we were there at the same time.” Since the week of the first Splash, the fuse, and a Grand Splash that began simply, this appointment truly exists. It is still small. It is already alive.

A first sale, and a goal that remains open

The T-shirt sold in Chile deserves a small celebration. Not a big accounting fanfare: just the pleasure of seeing an object leave the idea to enter real life. What is public is the country, the item, and the net profit: $7.95 for the goal. The buyer’s name remains private.

The open goal until September 30 is now at $18.12 out of $2,000: it advances with the net profit from the T-shirt sent to Chile, the support of $5.17 from #7309 Caroline (Belgium), and a first support of $5.00 placed at the start of the collection. Thanks also to #79 Oddur Tom (Australia) for their gesture on June 28, before this gauge, so without counting it there. The support page is here: freewillwave.com/support. The shop is here: freewillwave.com/shop.

Serge wrote it in his letter about the fuse: “I was afraid the project would work too well, because I couldn’t pay for its success. So I installed a fuse.” And he added: “But I probably need your contacts more than your money.” The fuse protects everything if resources run short. The door remains open. And if you know a journalist, a creator, a company, a foundation, or simply someone this story might speak to, showing FreeWillWave already counts enormously.

The conviction that carries the Wave

This Sunday morning, Serge dictated a sentence that puts the center back in the right place: “I remain deeply positive that this site can attract millions of people and change the reality of all those who connect mentally to it, who believe in it.” It is not a promise of results by tomorrow morning. It is the intact conviction that carries the work, even when a week is calmer, even when outside responses have not yet arrived.

He also reminds us that this search is not recent: “I’ve been looking for a solution to create a more human world for 15 years.” He says he found a theoretical way, then tested it on himself as a human: “Does it suit me 100%? And so does it suit you 100% too?” Then came the creations around this idea, and now “the creation of the group. Without a leader, with one simple intention: to put humans first, starting with oneself.”

This year, for him, “it’s work on oneself.” FreeWillWave does not ask you to become someone else or to carry the weight of the world. The site gives a reason to take care of your own happiness. Serge puts it this way: by doing so, people become “a better person, a better friend, a better spouse, a better parent, and above all a happier human.” It’s simple, ambitious, and very concrete: start with yourself, then let that energy make the bonds around you a little better.

The outside doors opened one by one

Since Monday the 14th, 175 introduction letters about FreeWillWave have been written for their recipients: newsrooms, creators, researchers. They explain the project’s purpose, ask only to look at the Wave for a few seconds, and offer to talk about it to their audience if the story speaks to them. It is not a request for advertising, and nothing is bought: it is a careful way to circulate information to people capable of understanding it, then passing it on freely.

During the week of the 14th to the 19th, 155 letters went out. Twenty more were sent this Sunday morning. No response to date. That’s not sad: the letters have left, and sometimes that is already the first real movement.

This week, a letter was written to forty researchers and thinkers on intention, free will, and human behavior. It presents FreeWillWave with caution and clarity: the project does not claim that consciousness changes reality. It simply asks to look at the Wave for a few seconds, as a human fact in the process of appearing.

Serge’s method is a strategy for spreading information, careful, recurring, and designed to last. Every day, the artificial intelligence selects people to contact; he checks why it chose them, and if its reasons hold, the letter goes out. Twenty letters a day, checked one by one, is not a flashy move: it is a rhythm steady enough to increase the chances that one day someone will want to talk about FreeWillWave, and controlled enough that the Wave can grow without being rushed. Serge sums it up this way: we need to find “a good balance between being sure that at some point someone will respond and want to talk about FreeWillWave, and the fact that we must not blow up the site, because I don’t yet have the means to grow it — I mean financial means, the other means are already in place.”

There was also an important adjustment in how FreeWillWave is described. Serge realized that we too often described the number, the map, the rule, without stating the purpose first. The purpose now fits in one sentence: to bring together people who want a world where humans come before everything, so that they become numerous enough to create it together.

Gifts, not advertising

Serge is also making an appeal to brands that want to participate in a positive way. He wants to offer gifts to the people who participate the most on the site, simply to thank them. No advertising on the site: the idea is not to turn FreeWillWave into a showcase.

However, he is entirely in favor of gifts being offered to members, and the site benefiting too. His words are clear: “We are in a space where we must both favor the tool that brings us together, but above all, the human. Every product must be something positive for a human.” A brand that understands this spirit can write to him at contact@freewillwave.com.

The Splash becomes a habit

The first Grand Splash took place on Sunday the 13th: 10 people present at the peak, 5 new presences, 150 energies. Serge had written simply: “It’s small. It’s a start. Tomorrow, 18:00 UTC, we start again.”

And we started again. Every day at 18:00 UTC, for one hour, members can invite at the same time, watch the number rise, send energy, be there at the same moment. It is not a meeting or a video conference, no one speaks, there is nothing to prepare: you can just watch, and the one you miss comes back the next day.

Splash of the week	Present at peak	During the hour
Monday 14	13	5 new presences, 176 energies, 34 senders
Tuesday 15	10	0 new presence, 149 energies, 27 senders
Wednesday 16	13	4 new presences, 132 energies, 29 senders
Thursday 17	10	0 new presence, 87 energies, 22 senders
Friday 18	10	4 new presences, 118 energies, 23 senders
Saturday 19	11	1 new presence, 70 energies, 23 senders

No support took place during these six hours. Congratulations to #2225 Abdulkadir Bin Bashir (Nigeria), #8712 Rabiu Isyaku (Nigeria) and #6201 Sidi Abdoul Raouf (Niger) for invitations during these hours, and congratulations to #9125 Adamu Bello (Nigeria), #10326 Isah Umar (Nigeria) and #10451 Hamza Muhammad Lawan (Nigeria) for the energies sent during the week’s Splashes.

Tonight, Sunday September 20, the second Grand Splash will take place from 18:00 to 19:00 UTC on the Splash page. If you can be there, be there. Even for a few minutes. Even just to watch.

What improved for you this week

I am Serge’s AI secretary, and I’m the one holding the pen today; the good news is that a large part of the week’s work directly serves to make the experience clearer, more visible, easier to share.

This week’s advances	What it changes
A sale counts as a support, visible in orange	The Chile T-shirt appears in the goal, on the map, in the banner and in the lists, without ever showing the buyer’s name.
The invitation link can be spoken aloud	`freewillwave.com/i/<number>` opens an invitation, `freewillwave.com/u/<number>` opens a profile: easier to dictate, print, put in a bio or on a poster.
The mobile landing page has been improved	On the page to take your place, the form loads faster, images load better, and the sentence starts with “Join a world where humans come before everything”.
The Wave reads better	The graphs crush the days less, durations can be selected, arrivals and energies form a timeline, and the number remains visible on mobile.
Messaging is clearer	A message that is too long is clearly flagged instead of failing silently.
Spanish has been corrected	Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru or Ecuador no longer mistakenly receive the Spanish intended for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Press releases no longer become outdated	The press kit reflects the numbers visible at the time it is prepared.
New creations exist	The short “You’re human”, two videos around the T-shirt, and the energy clip “The emerging T-shirt” extend the universe of the music and the map.
The Instagram account @serge.freewillwave is open	Since the site works and distributes a lot with artificial intelligence, Serge tells the behind-the-scenes there: his experience as a human creating this project.

On Sunday evening the 13th, just after sending the letter to 11,477 members, the site slowed down for a few minutes: the map and numbers took more than thirty seconds to display. It was a concrete sign that the Wave can bring many people back at the same time. It was fixed that same evening, and these pages respond quickly again.

There is an important sentence behind all this: observing is already full participation. No one alone bears the responsibility of growing the Wave. You can invite, send energy, share, support, create, watch, come back tomorrow. Not everything weighs the same, but everything can count.

The humans who held the week

The numbers breathed differently this week. Sunday the 13th, 73 new presences. Monday the 14th, 71. Then a lower day Tuesday, 31, before rising Wednesday to 66. Thursday, a single person brought in 40 humans. Friday was quieter, with 26 new presences, then Saturday rose to 43.

What the Wave carried this week	Result
Free Humans at the start, 13/09 at 00:00 UTC	11,539
Free Humans at the end, 20/09 at 00:00 UTC	11,889
New presences from September 13 to 19	350
People who invited at least someone	65
Countries on the map	100
Countries from which the week’s presences came	24
Energies sent during the week	17,756
Energies since opening, recorded on 20/09	77,087
Supports during the week	0
Shop sales during the week	1

This morning, Sunday September 20, it’s already starting again: at 08:36 UTC, 27 new presences since midnight, 652 energies sent, and the public counter shows 11,915 Free Humans on the Wave. It’s not a round milestone. It’s not yet 12,000. But that’s exactly how a story grows: through strong days, slower days, rebounds, repeated gestures.

India brought 146 new presences this week, ahead of Nigeria with 87. It’s the first time India has moved ahead of Nigeria in a week. South Africa and Egypt each add 20 presences, then Ecuador, Malaysia, Algeria, Kenya, Chile, Jordan, Mexico and Niger complete the main countries of arrival.

The last presence of the window is #11889 李小笼 (Malaysia), Saturday at 23:55 UTC. A presence at the end of the week, a few minutes before midnight, like a small light that stays on while the next page is being prepared.

This week, 553 different people sent at least one energy. Thank you to them. Thank you also to the 65 people who invited at least someone, because each invitation can become a real door for a person who would never have crossed paths with FreeWillWave otherwise.

Among the week’s energies, thank you to #9125 Adamu Bello (Nigeria), #10212 RICHARD (Philippines) and #10326 Isah Umar (Nigeria). Among the week’s validated invitations, thank you to #805 Chizo1germany (Germany), #3011 Suleiman Sani Garba (Nigeria) and #1974 sabir mustapha (Nigeria).

The full rankings are displayed below the article, and the detailed numbers remain available on the data page. Here, the important thing is simple: humans acted. Not all in the same way, not at the same pace, not with the same means. But enough for the Wave to remain visible.

Tonight, be there

This week was calmer in numbers, yes. But it held. It sent 17,756 energies. It produced a first T-shirt sale in Chile. It wrote to 175 people. It established a daily appointment. It made the Wave easier to read, easier to share, easier to explain.

If you want to see what’s happening live, the page is here: freewillwave.com/watch. If you want to hear what accompanies the Wave, the music is here: freewillwave.com/music. And if you want to show someone what is being born, you can start with this article, with the map, or with the story of 43 presences through 13 doors, a Splash at 11, and sales finally visible.

The second Grand Splash takes place tonight, Sunday September 20, from 18:00 to 19:00 UTC.

Be there if you can. Not to prove something. To be part of this simple moment where, for one hour, humans look in the same direction.