These are known as Direct to Film or DTF (lol). They are quite literally a printed plastic sheet that’s melted to the shirt. Easiest way to check for this is to crease the shirt on the design. Screenprinted will reveal the shirt color underneath where DTF will be a solid sheet.

I hate those

Those use to be pretty popular when I was growing up, I hated them. So much so that I barely buy t-shirts these days unless its a free shirt from some company

They also create weak points along their edge since it needs to bend more to make up for the stiffness of the plastic part. It'll start coming apart there before the neck frays.

I’d rather have it in the back because sometimes the print feels stiff and uncomfortable and sometimes boobies stretch out the image.

Makes me feel like a fucking billboard when on the front for some reason

Yep, I’m right there with you on this one

Yeah if you've got shirt with a wolf but no dragon on it that is a weak design, everyone knows this.

Exactly, graphic on the back for the same reason you don't look at explosions.

Im almost always wearing some sort of a sweater/jacket/cardigan etc

Counterpoint, wearing a graphic on the back feels shallow and self-aggrandizing. You're never going to get to see the graphic you like in a mirror; friends and acquaintances you interface with all day won't see it. It's only for the benefit of anonymous observers behind you that you'll never meet and won't think about you twice.

It also is more antisocial. It's natural to comment on a graphic when you're face to face (pointing to chest, "oh you also like [Band]?") and hard to broach a conversation from behind when they're probably engaged with something else ("[Band]? Oh right, the shirt, yeah...").

It's possible to pull it off, but in general I'd rather see someone confidently rocking a 3 wolf moon shirt than an incredible print drifting down the street on some anonymous back.

Yeah. Shows your belly

Fair enough

I've always found this awkward because I stare at tits but they assume I'm reading their shirt

Hell ya! Cause you didn't spend that much money on an uncomfortable bra to have those tatas ignored!

I hate when that happens. Gotta be a manufacturing error. It happens to me all the time with spoons as well, I'm eating with one normally, and then suddenly it turns inside out and can't grab any soup!

Long sleeves on the front, short sleeves on the back

I bet you're a metal fan that likes a certain drippy moon on their merch.

I hate those. They always put the tags on the front now, too.

Just yesterday someone I work with had a t-shirt with a small, centered inscription just below the neckline. I didn't catch myself in time and asked if the shirt was inside out, because it really looked like the logo/information you'd see inside under the neck on the back.

UGH, I have some of those and almost everyone says, "Hey did you know your shirt is inside out?"

Oh really? How did I button it?!

Inside-out fabrics: the dadaism of fashion.

Pro tip: you know companies get branded shirts right? There are other companies that print/embroider them. And those companies do samples of blank shirts. Look for your local custom print shop 😉

Then it touches the front of your neck! 💀😭🪦🤮