In Japan, pet fish go viral for playing video games and making purchases on their owner’s credit card.

Here’s something you don’t see every day. Pet fish playing a video game in Japan were able to log into the Nintendo Switch store, change their owner’s avatar, create a PayPal account, and accumulate purchases on their owner’s credit card statement.

And all of this was apparently streamed live over the internet.

The fish in question belong to a YouTuber known as Mutekimaru, whose channel is popular among the gaming community for its videos featuring groups of tetra fish “playing” video games.

Mutekimaru installed sophisticated tracking and motion detection software in his fish tank, allowing the fish to remotely control a Nintendo Switch console.

But technology, and the fish’s apparent dominance over it, took an unexpected turn earlier this month, while Mutekimaru was live streaming a Pokémon game.

Mutekimaru had walked away for a break when the game crashed due to a system error and the console returned to the home screen.

But the fish continued to swim, as fish tend to do, and apparently continued to control the console remotely from its tank.

Over the next seven hours, the fish allegedly managed to change the name of their owner’s Switch account before twice entering the Nintendo store, where users can purchase games and other downloadable content.

They were also able to “verify” the legal terms and conditions, download a new avatar and even create a PayPal account – sending an email to the owner in the process, a video of the live stream appeared.

But things didn’t end there. The fish were also seen adding 500 yen (about R$20) to Mutekimaru’s Switch account using his credit card during the live stream – exposing his credit card details in the process, the youtuber revealed in a video after the show. episode.

By this time, thousands of comments were streaming as viewers watched the unintentional takeover streamed live on the channel, and the incident went viral on Twitter, where thousands of Japanese users shared their amusement.

Mutekimaru later said that he had contacted Nintendo to explain what happened and asked for his 500 yen to be refunded.

Nintendo declined to comment to the CNN citing customer confidentiality.