The washer moves water up from the center and down the outside. That’s how it agitates the clothes to clean them.

You’re supposed to load items into the washer in a circle around the outside. Most things don’t matter, but something like a blanket can get stuck like this and won’t be cleaned as well.

You’re supposed to lay it in like a long snake in a circle around the outside, but I have done that and sometimes it still ends up like this :-(