Images, video and possibly audio cannot be loaded at all in WhatsApp. This is suspected to be a regression because it has been able to do so until recently. WebKitGTK 2.42.1/ Gnome Web 45.0 Tested on i7-13700F/ RTX 4070 and M2 Max
This seems to be working on WebKitGTK 2.42.2 / GNOME Web 45.1 (Tech Preview)
Yes this indeed seems to be fixed