5 Low Competition T Shirt Niches That Sell – Funny, Weird, and Trending

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Martinez presents five low-competition, funny crossover t-shirt niches for Amazon Merch, Etsy, Redbubble and TeePublic, each paired with an Ideogram AI prompt viewers can adapt. The creator reports eight years in print on demand and over $400,000 in royalties all time. His research method: type into Amazon and Etsy and watch autocomplete for real buyer keywords; look for under 2,000 listings; check best seller rank, wanting top shirts under 500K BSR for consistent sales; cross-check the niche on Redbubble and Google Trends; and find crossover angles. The five niches are: (1) the frog ‘you are either a smart fella or a fart smeller’ cowboy design, shown mainly on lighter shirt colors — he notes black shirts sell well for him but adding lighter colors boosted sales — with a BSR chart showing consistent selling since its first sale in December 2024; (2) Japanese-aesthetic Shiba Inu samurai designs, including samurai cat variants, with examples he says have sold consistently since 2021 and 2024; (3) Certified Nursing Assistant shirts in the coquette bow aesthetic with a stethoscope, a trend he says he caught months earlier, with a design first selling in February 2025; (4) ‘Ah Ship, it’s a graduation trip 2025’ cruise shirts, advising versions with and without the year and working ahead to future years; and (5) ‘Never underestimate the old guy’ disc golf silhouette shirts, selling since 2018 per the chart he shows. He repeatedly warns viewers to double-check trademarks and copyrights themselves, and promotes his Top Research & Design Vault.

Key takeaways

• Research recipe: autocomplete keywords, under 2,000 listings, top BSRs under 500K, and confirmation on Redbubble and Google Trends before designing
• Crossover angles (frog plus meme phrase, nurse role plus coquette bow aesthetic) are how a new shirt stands out in an existing niche
• Do not default to black shirts only — several proven designs sell on lighter colors, and adding light colors boosted the creator’s sales
• For dated designs like graduation trip shirts, publish versions with and without the year and work a year or more ahead
• Read BSR history charts, not just current rank: consistent up-and-down movement over months or years signals real recurring demand

Episode details: published May 15, 2025 · 14:55 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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