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There are things here that you don’t see in everyday life. A pet fish playing a video game in Japan logged on to the Nintendo Switch store, changed the owner’s avatar, set up a Pay Pal account, and created a credit card bill.
And it all seems to have been live-streamed over the internet in real time.
The fish in question belongs to a YouTuber known as Mutekimaru, a channel popular with the gaming community for videos featuring a group of tetrafish “playing” video games.
Mutekimaru had previously installed sophisticated motion-detection tracking software in fish tanks. Control your Nintendo Switch console remotely.
But the technology, and the fish’s apparent proficiency, led to an unexpected turn of events when Mutekimaru was live-streaming a Pokémon game earlier this month.
Mutekimaru was away for a break when a system error crashed the game and returned the console to the home screen.
However, the fish continued to swim like a fish, apparently continuing to remotely control the console from the tank.
In the next seven hours, Fish reportedly logged into the Nintendo Store, where users can purchase games and other downloadable content, twice after renaming the owner’s Switch account.
They were also able to “check” the legal terms, download new avatars, and even set up a PayPal account from the Switch.
But things didn’t end there. Fish was also seen adding his 500 yen ($4) from a credit card to Mutekimaru’s Switch account during the livestream, exposing his credit card details in the process, the YouTuber said. We made that clear in a follow-up video about the episode.
At this point, thousands of comments were streaming in as viewers watched the unintentional takeover being streamed live on the channel. caught a virus On Twitter, thousands of Japanese users shared their fun.
Mutekimaru later said that he had contacted Nintendo to explain what happened and asked for a refund of 500 yen.
Nintendo declined to comment to CNN, citing customer confidentiality.
