CNN  — 

Here’s thing you don’t spot everyday. Pet food playing a video crippled successful Japan managed to log connected to the Nintendo Switch store, alteration their owner’s avatar, acceptable up a Pay Pal relationship and rack up a recognition paper bill.

And it was each seemingly livestreamed, successful existent time, connected the internet.

The food successful question beryllium to a YouTuber known arsenic Mutekimaru, whose transmission is fashionable with the gaming assemblage for its videos featuring groups of tetra food that “play” video games.

Mutekimaru had antecedently installed blase question detection tracking bundle successful food tanks, enabling the fish to remotely power a Nintendo Switch console.

But the technology, and the fishes’ evident mastery of it, led to an unexpected crook of events earlier this period portion Mutekimaru was live-streaming a crippled of Pokémon.

Mutekimaru had stepped distant for a interruption erstwhile the crippled crashed owed to a strategy mistake and the console returned to the location screen.

But the food carried connected swimming, similar food thin to do, and seemingly continued to power the console remotely from their tank.

During the adjacent 7 hours, the food reportedly managed to alteration the sanction of their owner’s Switch relationship earlier doubly logging into the Nintendo store, wherever users tin acquisition games and different downloadable content.

They besides managed to “check” ineligible presumption and conditions, downloaded a caller avatar and adjacent acceptable up a PayPal relationship from the Switch – sending an email retired to their proprietor successful the process, video from the livestream appeared to show.

But things didn’t extremity there. The food were besides seen adding 500 yen ($4) to Mutekimaru’s Switch relationship from his recognition paper during the livestream – exposing his recognition paper details successful the process, the YouTuber revealed successful a follow-up video astir the episode.

By this point, thousands of comments were streaming successful arsenic viewers watched the unintended takeover being livestreamed connected the channel, and the incidental went viral connected Twitter, wherever thousands of Japanese users shared their amusement.

Mutekimaru aboriginal said that helium had contacted Nintendo to explicate what happened and asked for a refund of his 500 yen.

Nintendo declined to remark to CNN, citing lawsuit confidentiality.