webpack 5 and cypress-react-unit-test image assets

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For some reason, even inlined assets don't get rendered.

// ./webpack.config.js

...
{
    test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|eot|ttf|woff|woff2)$/i,
    type: 'asset', // sets assets to be automatically resourced. cypress fails when i make this 'asset/resource'. Some error about automatic public path. :(
},

deps:

"cypress": "^5.5.0",
    "cypress-react-unit-test": "^4.16.0",
    "typescript": "^4.0.5",
    "webpack": "^5.1.3",
    "webpack-cli": "4.2.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^3.11.0"