diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
index 5339a002..62c75032 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_script/group_loot_tests.rs
@@ -385,6 +385,20 @@ fn nothing_repaints_a_frame_that_opened_before_its_snapshot() {
     let mut s = setup();
     load_group_loot(&s);
 
+    // What the label reads **untouched**, which is not nothing: `LootFrame.xml` authors
+    // `text="Item Name"` on `$parentName` as a design-time placeholder, and every copy of that
+    // file has it — the realm's `patch-4`, `patch.MPQ` and stock `interface.MPQ` alike. So an
+    // unpainted name is the placeholder, and "stays blank" means **unchanged**, not nil. Read
+    // rather than written here, so the realm owns its own placeholder.
+    let unpainted = s
+        .eval::<Option<String>>("return GroupLootFrame1Name:GetText()")
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        unpainted.is_some(),
+        "the reference authors a placeholder on this label; if that ever stops being true this \
+         test's premise is what changed"
+    );
+
     // The order the app must never produce: the event first, against a model with no such roll.
     s.fire_event(
         "START_LOOT_ROLL",
@@ -397,7 +411,7 @@ fn nothing_repaints_a_frame_that_opened_before_its_snapshot() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<Option<String>>("return GroupLootFrame1Name:GetText()")
             .unwrap(),
-        None,
+        unpainted,
         "nothing to paint yet — this is the reported state"
     );
 
@@ -408,8 +422,8 @@ fn nothing_repaints_a_frame_that_opened_before_its_snapshot() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<Option<String>>("return GroupLootFrame1Name:GetText()")
             .unwrap(),
-        None,
-        "the name stays blank: the reference has no repaint path"
+        unpainted,
+        "the name is unchanged: the reference has no repaint path"
     );
     assert!(
         !s.eval::<bool>("return GroupLootFrame1Decoration:IsShown()")
@@ -429,7 +443,7 @@ fn nothing_repaints_a_frame_that_opened_before_its_snapshot() {
     assert_eq!(
         s.eval::<Option<String>>("return GroupLootFrame1Name:GetText()")
             .unwrap(),
-        None
+        unpainted
     );
 }