[8][9] The show was hosted by Dave Bonawits,[1][10] Andrew Choe,[1][10] Matt Harrigan,[1][a][10] Christina Loranger (since 2019),[12] and Max Simonet,[1][13][10] employees from the digital department room of Adult Swim.

[17] Among the laid off staff were all of the FishCenter Live hosts, except for Max Simonet, and the layoffs ultimately resulted in the cancellation of the Adult Swim streams.

Following two more weeks of programming, FishCenter Live, and the Adult Swim streams as a whole, ended on November 25, 2020, with a two-part finale declaring TZ2 as the last Galaxy King.

Due to Sir Squirt's death the second place fish for the Winter season, being Hamburger, was declared the Super King representative.

The callers, fish, and guests compete for points in various games: Games created for guests have included: 100 gecs, Alvvays, George Clinton, Carach Angren, Consider the Source, Dinosaur Jr., Injury Reserve, John Maus, Dying Fetus, Billie Eilish, Yung Lean, Daughters, Hard Working Americans (HWA), Colin Hay, Le Butcherettes, Los Lobos, Morbid Angel, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, David Sedaris, Tower of Power, Trampled by Turtles, and Turkuaz played on FishCenter Live.

On 24 October 2019, American rock band Cage the Elephant released a music video for the song "Social Cues" from their eponymous album.

[38] The show came about when staff decided to film the tropical fish swimming around their aquarium as an idea for developing content for the website's online streaming channels.

"[20] Ranked sixth in their list of best "unknown" television series of 2015, Newsday's Verne Gay reviewed ""FC Live" is insane — as such, a perfect distillation of all that is Adult Swim.

"[27] The Guardian's Mark Lawson critiqued "Ambitiously, this is a phone-in show, although disappointingly, the fish don't take the calls, but swim in tanks that surround the presenters.

"[43] Reviewing their Alvvays performance, Uproxx's Derrick Rossignol declared "every band should be on it, because at the very least, it's one of the most bizarre live internet shows you can possibly watch.

"[18] In an interview with host Max Simonet, Sonoma Index-Tribune's David Templeton remarked "[it's] a bizarrely simple cult-hit web-and-television show.

"[13] In 2016, two Dragon Con cosplayers, claiming an association with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network and wore "Make FishCenter Great Again" hats, dressed as the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

[44][46] Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston speculated they were cosplaying as the game Rampage,[3] while Facebook commenters drew a connection with the anime Terror in Resonance.

[citation needed] Unlike the American version of FishCenter, FishCentre was not live and consisted of scripted shorts no longer than 2 minutes in length, with voices super-imposed onto the fish.