Buddy...

1. Turn your shirt inside out before putting it in the machine.
2. Set the machine to cold water, delicate/gentle cycle.
3. 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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Air dry your graphic tees people!

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

And that "tagless label" is gone after the first wash too.

Doing their best to kill the used clothing market.

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.

You should check out Dan Flashes if you want some really amazing and complicated patterns.

Me, who always buys plain shirts...

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