Gif preserved by Archive.org. As long as there was a link to the image itself, there was a fair chance to recover this.
Unfortunately, the post page wasn't preserved. But the blog page it was on was.

@baconmeh2 the better version (which is a gif in 99.99% of ugoira vs gif comparisons) should be the parent

hdk5 said:

@baconmeh2 the better version (which is a gif in 99.99% of ugoira vs gif comparisons) should be the parent

@hdk5 I see. I asked in Discord #tagging about it, and input wasn't conclusive. Thank you for clarifying.