It’s always with my best shirts

Buddy...
Turn your shirt inside out before putting it in the machine.
Set the machine to cold water, delicate/gentle cycle.
The picture you posted is of a dry, hot desert, right? What do you think a machine called a dryer that uses heat will do? Hang them to dry on a cheap rack from Amazon or your shower curtain rod instead.
I have shirts that still look practically new after dozens and dozens of washes.
- How do you insert an image like this in comments? I can only get the link to the image to show up. Thanks.
- Do you really think his mom is going to go through all that?
  
  OP can turn them inside out themselves when they take the shirts off and put them in the dirt clothes hamper.
  You don't change the settings for every individual article of clothing. You turn the knob or press the button once. This is not hard.
  Hanging stuff up is easier and faster than folding it. The actual drying part is slow though.
- I hate the way hanged shirts feel, so stiff and wrinkly
  
  It's even worse when they were innocent
  
  And somehow even more dry
  
  That's what the "Fluff" cycle on the dryer is for.
- This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
  
  I went to the store to buy a candle holder, but they didn't have one... So I bought a cake.
- Even just hang drying will do wonders. Also for your budget. That's like 5 dollars a week saved.
  
  It’s amazing how much it costs to use dryers. At least with California’s energy prices.
  
  We hang dry most of my wife’s stuff because it’s more delicate, hand made garments and such, but even that takes up two of those foldable hanging rack things. If we did all mine too we’d have no room to walk in our apartment. Just another way it costs more to be poor.
- Yeah but how do they smell 👀
  
  He ain’t say “bruh don’t even wash them”.
  
  They don't nose.

I wash all my band shirts in a washing machine at 40C with only color detergent and no fabric softener. I hang dry the tshirts on hangers instead of folding them over the clothes line or using clothes pins. Absolutely no dryer outside of whatever the washing machine does.
It works pretty well. The real secret is to have about 30 of them so you don't wash them every week.
Edit: like another commenter said, wash your clothes inside out.
- If you didn't sweat much in them/ they aren't that dirty then 30° also does the job.
  
  Honestly, even I was even my gym clothes on cold, and it works just fine. The hotter settings are more for stain removal.
  
  Probably, yeah

IIRC: To prevent this from happening or slowing down the occurrence, turn your shirt inside out before you put it in the washing machine and dryer. Set both to the lowest or second lowest temperature for both machines. Works well for me. But as others have said, air drying is the best way to treat them. Me on the other hand...
- Hmm, this is kinda funny to me, where I live we usually don't have or don't use dryers, we have "ropes" where we hang all the clothes, laundry is usually done at weekends and the clothes can stay there all day if needed (which most likely don't).
  I mean, we have a freaking imponent sun right now, we better use it (36 Celsius right now).

For clothes I have 2 rules: 1) If the zipper is not made by YKK, fuck it I don't need that article 2) I never buy cheap screen printed fabric t shirts. DTG on cotton all the way.
- Apparently, "Direct-to-Garment". It seems to bond better with the cloth fibers.
  
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- How can you tell about the print?
  
  You can feel it. The DTG print is very flexible, it feels like the fibre just has another color. The screen print feels like a sheet of rubber that was attached to the shirt.

I've had a couple of t shirts through the years where the fabric itself seems to have been dyed into an image instead of just being screen printed on. I get it obviously must be more expensive, but it holds up amazingly and I wish more places out there did this.
- I once bought some cheap-ass knockoff merch shirt that was printed like that. And shit cost, like, five bucks.
  (In retrospect, I'm not proud of buying products of likely slave labor, but what's done is done.)
  
  There is slave labor at aome point in pretty much every product you use. The cotton used for your shirt, the cocoa in your chocolate bar, the strawberry you had in your salad today, all likely had forced labor to some degree. Even the cartoon you watched last night might have been animated bu some korean child.

Air dry your graphic tees people!
- wash in cold water only
  wash inside out
  air dry
  No cracks, no fading. You're welcome
  
  And don’t use liquid fabric softener
- Or use the dryer on low.
  
  The fact that anyone is using anything higher than low for their clothes is shocking. If your clothes aren’t drying, it means you need to split the load into 2 separate ones, people!
- I hand wash and air dry the few shirts I care about.

This happened to me with a shirt I got for pride almost a year in advance that said "GAY TRASH" and when I went to wear it all it said was "G AS"
I still think about that to this day

Washing it wrong, check the label, some clothes require specific settings, or need to be inside out
- Survival of the fittest
  I don't want weak clothes
  
  Shirt: "warm hand wash please!"
  Me, yeeting it into the spin cycle at 60 degrees:
  
  My jeans must have good genes.
  
  Lmao
  
  I like the gib of your cut
  
  Did you mean "I don't want baggy clothes"?
- almost all of those cheap iron on thick ass layered prints do this. they grate your skin then dissolve off the shirt. I've taught my 9 year old how to pick out good graphic tees, no shitty iron on mass produced trash.
- Example: one of my shirts cannot go in the dryer. It has to hang dry.
  
  Precisely, it’s really just a matter fact of reading the tags to understand how to care for the shirt

If they look like this after a week, they are not your best t-shirts.
Also: you can actually feel, if the paint is going to look like this after some time.
- I swear live nation and Ticketmaster are in cahoots to keep shitty vinyl press shops in business
  Shitty quality means they wear out and need replacing faster.
  
  I wish more places just dyed the fabric. I have some shirts that are 10+ years old and look exactly like the day I bought them and they all are graphic tees with the image dyed into the shirt itself. The ones I have with a plastic-y decoration on the front, even if I take all the special precautions that other posters mention in the thread, will inevitably crack and wear out over time.
  My problem is I want to get a custom design printed, and a lot of places will advertise that they screen print, but if you go to their website and create a custom design you find that they either won't do less than X number of shirts as a minimum order, or they will just vinyl print it anyway and send you that for $35 and it will fall apart almost instantly.
- Some of the worst shirts I've seen, both fabric quality wise and print wise, have been at concerts for my favorite bands. Some of the best as well. If you want something guaranteed to last a long time you have to pay for expensive custom made designs. But then again, this defeats the purpose of directly supporting your favorites with the extra merchandize.

And that "tagless label" is gone after the first wash too.
Doing their best to kill the used clothing market.
- The used clothing market hinges on an annoying piece of extra fabric that stabs me in the back of the neck?
  
  Oh yeah, good shirts are practically the same as vampires or weird rich people.
  They need a constant supply of blood to keep up it's appearance.
- Tagless labels disappearing isn’t ideal. It's a bummer that clothing has been produced so cheaply over the last some years that now much of it, which is donated overseas, ends up not being worth repairing and/or reselling.

Me, who always buys plain shirts...

You should check out Dan Flashes if you want some really amazing and complicated patterns.
- Dan Flashes got a new shirt in today that's $450.
  
  I reeeally want that one!

Don't put them in the dryer and they last longer. Air dry is the best way to preserve these kind of designs.

Low dryer heat solves this
- Honestly just wear it wet
  No but seriously hang drying will help. Also not buying screen printed tees

you're supposed to wash the turne inside out

Look up which brand were the ones that hold out and look there for cool shirts. Likely not the 5 bucks slave labor ones.
- They're all slave labor
  
  ... 🔫 Always has been

I don't get it.
- This issue
  
  weird, never had that happen

Its like being a billboard but instead you paid the company a days worth of your labor for the right to advertise on behalf of them while they're paying others for that same service.
- They said "a cool design" and nothing at all about any logo or intellectual property. Maybe it's a sick dragon playing a guitar.
  
  Free advertising for sickdragonplayingguitar.com

You bought a sht product because you just went after the looks but not of what it was made, where it was made and what quality is has.
Essentially, you are part of the problem of why the earth goes down.
Use your brain not your instincts.
- Buddy, this is late stage capitalism. Every product you buy is shit.
  
  Why the negative votes?
  Personally I have only a hand full of t-shirts, all made of good 100 percent wool. I rotate them in use and I get maybe two weeks of time each before I have to wash them again because wool is not getting stenchy very fast, is anti bacterial and has a good climate while wearing, be it cold or hot weather. They get washed inside out and with pretty cold water, which is good for the fabric, and dry on air, because that's energy efficient and also good for the fabric. I have them for like two years now and they look brand new, no pilling, no tears, no nothing. The wool flows and gleams like at the first day. Just. Do. Not. Buy. Trash.