WTF is it with Giphy saving all animated gifs as webp - try and convert them to .gif and they don't seem to be animated anymore. It's not like .gif is a large file size or anything.
@NorthernInvader Webp is a stain to be honest. For the most part if you change the extension for images in webp to .jpg/.jpeg it'll just appear as a normal jpeg. Not sure about gifs, hell I didn't even know until now that it did both animated and non animated images.
@glassramen @NorthernInvader Your computer uses file extensions to make a quick list of which programs are good for opening it.
However, if you attempt to open a graphic in a program that can read multiple types, it will generally figure it out on its own by looking at the file and still open it.
webp can contain multiple types of encoding, that do similar things to jpegs, gifs, and png files. I think it's most similar to png.
I'm sus of anything Google, but it still seems to do what it says.
@AskTheDevil @NorthernInvader It's so strange though, skype (last time I tried sending webps) can't display them at all (might have been discord. I can't recall which program it was, one of the two.) But after changing it to .jpg it worked flawlessly.
So I assumed that it probably did as you said and has encoding information similar enough to jpg that it worked as expected. Interesting that you mention it is similar to png and gif though.