Overview

Fishtank Live Season 2 is the second season of the reality web series Fishtank by Sam Hyde and Jet Neptune, in which eight contestants, known as "fish," live in a fully monitored house that is livestreamed 24/7 to viewers at fishtank.live. Viewers can prank and mess with, support or send text-to-speech messages to contestants via donations, similar to Control My Room livestreams. Season 2 introduces a clan system, where viewers can team up in clans and coordinate on what they want to do to the fish. The second season began livestreaming on December 18th, 2023, roughly 10 months after the first season ended.

Promotion

Crowd Funding

On October 5th, 2023, the Sam & Nick's Perfect Clips YouTube^[1] channel uploaded a video titled "fishtank season 2 needs you" where Sam Hyde and Jet Neptune announced early stage crowdfunding for the second season of Fishtank, announcing that the first season made over $1.25 million in revenue in around six weeks of filming. The video description links to a WeFunder.com^[2] campaign, which gained over $1.03-million in funding in two months.

Fishtank Season 2 Trailer / Additional Promotion

On December 5th, 2023, the Fishtank season 2 trailer was posted to YouTube,^[3] garnering over 105,000 views in two weeks (shown below).

On December 10th, the official @fishtankislive X^[4] page posted a promotional poster for the show that reads "stay inside no grass" as opposed to season one's "stay inside no weed" posters, garnering over 1,300 likes in a week (shown below). On December 17th, Jet Neptune posted to X,^[5] "with nicks guidance i really think we upped the effort and intensity of the s2 house. the set is much better. wallpapered, painted, many many nights spent with contractors and helpers until 7am busting it down. couldnt have done it alone. cant wait for you guys to see," garnering over 1,400 likes in a day.

Season 2 History

Week One

Days One to Three

Fishtank season 2 premiered on Monday December 18th, 2023 at 2:00 PM est. Some viewers had troubles viewing the feeds after it launched due to heavy traffic.

That day, X^[7] user @luna__mae began a thread compiling moments from the first day. Shinji was the first to arrive at the house, followed by Trisha. The two made their introductions and Trisha went to explore the house (shown below). The rest of the fish gradually made their ways into the house throughout the day, with the final fish, Brian, arriving around 1:20am on day two.

TANK TIME – 3:51PMThe first two fish are officially meeting!#fishtanklive #fishtankliveupdate pic.twitter.com/Je6yapLJHf

— Luna (@luna__mae) December 18, 2023

On day two the first challenge was issued by Sam Hyde, playing the character of Jebediah Goldstriker. The challenge, much like the first challenge in season one, had players count piles of rice to separate the Basmati from the white rice (shown below).^[8]

The first challenge is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before #fishtanklive pic.twitter.com/Byw3fdCwCN

— Samantha Hyde (@uglyophelia) December 19, 2023

That day, it was also discovered that the contestant Shinji had previously been a male prostitute and featured in adult videos online.^[9] Goldstriker had one-on-one interviews with the contestants that day and told them that one fish is an "infiltrator," tasking them with figuring out who it is. Some believed the infiltrator was Jimmy, but Jet Neptune told them it was not.

Later that day, the fish took part in karate training and sparring. A contest was held where the fish each told a life story and viewers voted on a winner, with Shinji being awarded the win and getting $1,000. At around 1:00 AM on December 20th, the fish were all told that their beds would have to be moved to the kitchen, where they'd have to sleep for the night.

Contestants

On December 17th, 2023, X^[6] user @AndyjackV posted a thread sharing images and names of the purported contestants in season 2, revealing five men and five women (shown below). The image is not entirely accurate, with Frank not being a real fish and Cole looking entirely different than his photo. The female contestants are Trisha, JC, Tayleigh, Megan and Summer and the male contestants are Shinji, Jimmy, Brian, Cole and Thomas.

Search Interest

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