YouTuber Mutekimaru, known for having his pet fish play Pokémon in livestreams, went viral again earlier this week for an even wilder feat than beating a Pokémon game without any opposable thumbs: during a stream of Pokémon Violet, an unexpected error caused the fish to leave the game and enter the Nintendo eShop, where they not only revealed the owner’s credit card information, they purchased 500 yen (about US$4).
Mutekimaru (also known as Maurice) had set up a system to allow his Siamese fighting fish (otherwise known as a Betta) to “play” the game. Mutekimaru had his tank divided into different sections designated as a Nintendo Switch controller’s Left, Right, Up, Down, A, and B buttons. A camera was then set up to track the fish’s movements into inputs as it swam around the various sections of…
