Top 50 WINNING Q4 T-Shirt Design Niche Research for 2023 (Hurry Before Competition Catches On!)

About this video

In this long niche-research walkthrough for Q4 2023, RJ Martinez uses Merch Informer’s Merch Hunter and Movers & Shakers to work through a list billed as the top 50 winning t-shirt designs. His core method is reading BSR charts: a dropping BSR means a design is making sales, evergreen designs sell year-round, and many spike again in Q4 because t-shirts are bought as gifts. Niches covered include anime/ramen/sketching combos, anti-ugly-Christmas-sweater jokes, funny chicken, Bigfoot, gamer (‘I paused my game to be here’), axolotl mixed with ramen, funny Christmas sayings, ‘Grill Father’ barbecue, flags of countries, ‘in my defense I was left unsupervised,’ gnomes sub-niched by holiday and job, guitar/skeleton, inflation-themed Christmas designs, ‘Dear Santa, my brother did it,’ balding humor, cat daddy, Pluto, T-Rex, ‘I love my…’ designs, mechanic, ice hockey, fishing, elf family matching shirts, sarcastic sayings, ramen and boba tea with animals, birria, anxiety opossum, math, saxophone, official teenager birthdays, husband sayings, cats and computers, black cat Christmas, wrestling, Highland cow, the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, apple picking, breast cancer survivor, Native American, scuba diver, housekeeper, poker, pumpkin spice (and anti-pumpkin-spice), hot air balloon, aliens/pyramids, Year of the Dragon for Chinese New Year 2024, pho, and snowboard/ski designs. Throughout he stresses mixing niches, adding a twist to a proven saying rather than copying, watching social media for viral ideas, and never copying a design pixel-for-pixel.

Key takeaways

• Use BSR movement as demand evidence: repeated drops mean consistent sales, and Q4 gift season pushes even evergreen designs harder.
• Cross-niching works: combining two proven interests (e.g., axolotl + ramen, cat + boba tea, animal + sport) creates fresher designs with demand on both sides.
• Simple text-based designs and single standalone graphics can outsell complex art; several examples he shows have thousands of ratings.
• Seasonal hooks multiply niches: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, birthdays, and dated events like the April 8, 2024 eclipse can each be crossed with animals, jobs, and hobbies.
• Do not copy designs pixel-for-pixel — take the concept, add your own wording or twist, and use tools like Merch Hunter/Movers & Shakers plus platforms like TikTok for inspiration.

Episode details: published September 20, 2023 · 58:54 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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