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[D&D5E] Having Trouble getting Library Gifs to work in Macros

I am trying to get a macro working to display a gif I uploaded to the library. For some strange reason, whenever I go to upload gifs, it loads them in as "webm" file types in the library, despite the actual file being a gif. I then CTRL+SHIFT+C to inspect the link of the image from the library (ie <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/387831207/dimRTbJequ1uQp0LrPh-oQ/med.webm?1712488700" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/387831207/dimRTbJequ1uQp0LrPh-oQ/med.webm?1712488700</a> ), attempt a macro with it [ ]( <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/387831207/dimRTbJequ1uQp0LrPh-oQ/med.webm?1712488700" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.d20.io/images/387831207/dimRTbJequ1uQp0LrPh-oQ/med.webm?1712488700</a> ) (with proper variants, ie removing "?1712488700", and adding "#.gif", and neither, leaving it at just "...med.webm") but it never works. I do not know what is causing this to fail. gifs from sites like Giphy work fine, and non-gif images work from the library, but idrk how to go about gifs I upload to the roll20 library
I have noticed that it also does this for MP4's as well. I also realized (from reading another post) that uploading animated media such as gifs and videos take incredibly long (no less than 20m, even for half a megabyte..) What is going on? What can I do to fix this?
Here's the process for uploading animations: 1: Go to, and Launch, your D&amp;D Game 2: Click on Art Library in the chat tabs 3: Click Upload, a window will pop-up 4: Drag n Drop an animated (.mp4/.gif) file to the upload window 5: Wait forever (20m-1h) for it to properly upload. If it does all of these things, you will have it present in the art library and can preview it by hovering over it (if you refresh the page while it uploads, it'll show as there, but it won't preview anything, likely due to the upload process being cut short via refreshing) However, as said, it will upload as a WebM, rather than the appropriate file type uploaded to. I know not why it apparently converts them to WebM, but I think this is what causes it to break when making it display in the chat area (normally or via a macro). Here are some images of what these steps look like Step 3: Step 4: Step 5: And then once it is uploaded: (I am trying to upload the images, but it keeps failing. I do not know why)