I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.
Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit
Annoying, I have been renaming files to .jpg and can get around some of the crap.
Just renaming a file extension is not enough, that’s only a user-friendly name. The file itself needs to be decoded differently. On Linux you can recode them with commands such as Imagick:
magick input.webp output.jpg. Either way there are also many website that can recode/convert them for you.