10 Viral T-Shirt Prompt Ideas (You Can Steal Today)

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R.J. Martinez, who claims he has done over $400k in royalties with print on demand, shares 10 ready AI t-shirt prompts plus bonuses, built for tools like Ideogram. His formula is: niche or subject + funny emotional hook + visual style + optional text, illustrated by ‘angry goose holding a baseball bat, Don’t honk with me, cartoon style, bold retro text.’ The 10 are: 1) grumpy cat in a wizard robe, ‘Not today, muggle,’ cartoon pop-culture parody; 2) retro raccoon eating pizza, ‘snack bandit,’ ’90s cartoon style; 3) tired coffee cup with sunglasses, ‘Espresso yourself,’ minimalist vector; 4) angry goose with a baseball bat, ‘Don’t honk with me’; 5) dinosaur reading bedtime stories, ‘Prehistoric parent mode,’ soft kid-book style for tired dino dads; 6) a niche animal doing karate in comic book style; 7) retro dad grilling, ‘Grill Sergeant,’ sunset background; 8) chicken staring at camera, ‘Don’t look at the chicken,’ sticker style; 9) sloth riding a rocket, ‘Nap time is over,’ space cartoon style; 10) owl on a branch, ‘I am a hoot,’ retro sunset, handwritten fonts, suggested for Etsy, Amazon Merch, Redbubble and other sites. Bonuses: T-Rex in sunglasses on roller skates, ‘Jurassic roll,’ neon 80s style, and a koala meditating under a bonsai tree, ‘Inner piece,’ zen sketch style. He then teaches remixing: swap the grumpy cat wizard to a grumpy dog in a graduation cap, ‘Not today, professor,’ and turn Grill Sergeant into Gamer Boss, Campfire Commander, or Grill Mom Supreme.

Key takeaways

• Use the formula: niche/subject + funny emotional hook + visual style + optional text
• Contradiction and chaos drive attention, e.g. sloth on a rocket and angry goose with a baseball bat
• Coffee, barbecue dads, and animal puns are presented as reliably selling niches
• Generate the designs fast in Ideogram rather than starting from a blank screen
• Remix a proven prompt by swapping the animal, role, and text to enter a new niche without starting from scratch

Episode details: published April 15, 2025 · 5:12 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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