Pet fish playing a video game in Japan managed to log on to the Nintendo Switch store, change their owner's avatar, set up a Pay Pal account and rack up a credit card bill. And it was all seemingly livestreamed.
The fish in question belong to awhose channel is popular with the gaming community for its videos featuring groups of tetra fish that "play" video games.
But the technology, and the fishes' apparent mastery of it, led to an unexpected turn of events earlier this month while Mutekimaru was live-streaming a game of Pokémon. But the fish carried on swimming, like fish tend to do, and seemingly continued to control the console remotely from their tank. They also managed to "check" legal terms and conditions, downloaded a new avatar and even set up a PayPal account from the Switch — sending an email out to their owner in the process, video from the livestream appeared to show.
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