An unfortunate YouTuber has had their credit card details revealed during a streaming session of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet by their own fish. The YouTuber often livestreams games being played by their fish, and hadn’t expected such a misfortune during their Pokemon Scarlet and Violet stream.
With so many streamers to choose from playing recent releases and cult classics, there’s been more of a drive recently for streamers to have a personal gimmick, whether it be using a Guitar Hero controller to beat Dark Souls, dressing as the character of the game being played, or even using brain activation commands to play Elden Ring. So the concept of fish streaming Pokemon doesn’t seem as far-fetched as it may have done just a few years ago. Fish committing fraud against their owner, however, is still quite unexpected.
That is exactly what happened to Japanese YouTuber Mutekimaru, who regularly streams Pokemon games as played by his fish. In fact, it was Mutekimaru’s fish that found a glitch in Pokemon Sapphire nearly 18 years after release. Mutekimaru’s fish beat Pokemon Sapphire in the same year as finding the glitch. Needless to say the YouTuber is quite experienced in this kind of stream, and so left the fish to continue playing Pokemon unattended for a while.
A glitch in the Pokemon title caused the game to crash out to the Switch’s home screen, however, and from there the fish accessed the eShop to accidentally commit the crime. On the way to accessing the eShop, the fish also changed Mutekimaru’s profile name to what can be translated as “RowawawaYen.” Upon entering the eShop, the viewers tried to warn the streamer by spamming messages such as “stop!” and “that’s dangerous!” Regretfully, Mutekimaru wasn’t able to see these messages, and the fish went on to reveal the streamer’s bank details to the audience. While glitches have been common, this one was quite serious and was not as funny as a Pokemon Scarlet and Violet glitch that causes kingambit to spin out of control, which seems to be more in-line with typical glitches for the game.
The fish charged 500 yen to the account, downloaded the N64 emulator, and used up some coins to purchase a Nintendo Switch Sports cosmetic. Mutekimaru was able to be refunded by Nintendo after explaining the situation which must have sounded somewhat fishy. While Nintendo games are usually very high quality, and are known for solid gameplay, there have been more bugs recently as Nintendo are also aware of a Fire Emblem Engage relay trials bug. Hopefully future output from Nintendo will at least be fish-proof.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available on Nintendo Switch.
