{"id":90581,"date":"2026-10-04T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90581"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:37:03","slug":"mighty-mike-plays-dad-says-he-owns-like-12-companies-promises-refunds-for-ai-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90581","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Mike Plays Dad Says He Owns &#8216;Like 12 Companies,&#8217; Promises Refunds for AI Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Mighty Mike Plays dad Dave has promised refunds and issued a lengthy explanation after the internet demanded more information about the YouTube ads allegedly purchased by his son and the drama that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The Mighty Mike Plays saga began when a father took to YouTube to announce that his son had allegedly used his company credit card to purchase more than $118,000 in video ads. It was a painful and highly relatable story that snowballed into a full-fledged internet spectacle when pricey AI-generated T-shirts and questionable details led many online to look for concrete answers.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial father figure came clean in a new video titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tH7h99UeEvg\">Allow me to Explain<\/a>&#8221; that was uploaded to the Mighty Mike Plays channel last week (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/youtube\/mighty-mike-plays-dad-refunds-viewers-for-ai-merch-retracts-claim-he-was-fired-3415052\/\">Dexerto<\/a>). Dave started the hour-long explainer \u2013 which has since been deleted and re-uploaded on a new YouTube channel called Coffee Time with Dave \u2013 promising that everyone who purchased one of those T-shirts would receive a refund.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cthis might be the end of Mighty Mike Plays\u2026\u201d is the funniest thing you could say in front of your dad after putting him 118k in debt and getting him fired<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mako Fukasame \ud83e\udd88\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83c\udfeb | Vershion AU (@MakoFukasame) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MakoFukasame\/status\/2099914186734387549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mighty Mike Plays dad Dave has promised refunds and issued a lengthy explanation after the internet demanded more information about the YouTube ads allegedly purchased by his son and the drama that followed. The Mighty Mike Plays saga began when a father took to YouTube to announce that his son had allegedly used his company&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":90583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90585,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90581\/revisions\/90585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}