There's been a significant amount of chatter in the Twitch sphere in recent months, as more streamers flirt with DMCA takedowns as part of the so-called TV Meta, wherein streamers will simply watch episodes of television shows and react to it.

While big-name streamers like xQc and Hasan Piker have generally gotten away with viewing old episodes of MasterChef, the first significant ban went to Pokimane for streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender last week. Piker was next, followed by DisguisedToast, who was watching Death Note for two weeks prior to his ban on Monday.

DisguisedToast, real name Jeremy Wang, told his followers he'd "see them in a month," causing some to think the Twitch banhammer came down particularly hard on him. Only, that wasn't the case, and Wang was back to streaming in 48 hours, where he admitted that he had planned the entire ban weeks ago.

Wang told fellow streamer Lilypichu that he would be streaming Death Note on his channel and asked her to submit a DMCA takedown request as soon as he started. "To scare people from watching anime," was his reasoning.

It took five days since Lilypichu submitted the DMCA strike for Wang to get his channel temporarily banned. In the meantime, he streamed nearly all of Death Note.

"When I started this whole thing, I didn’t expect it to go that long. Maybe like two days," he laughed. "Then it actually went on for two weeks! It got out of hand."

He also implied that the plan was a bit of a stunt to advertise his new merch line, but on a more serious note, claimed he wanted to shine a light on Twitch's weird relationship with DMCA strikes that made the "TV Meta" a reality in the first place.

“Something is broken about the DMCA system. I don’t think I should have gotten away with a whole series," he said. "And, I don’t think Hasan should have been taken away with a false DMCA claim. Something’s broken here. I didn’t enjoy the risk. I didn’t enjoy breaking the rules. And I don’t know if I helped by pointing all this out. But something isn’t right, and we need to look at it."