WKWebview is nil even though it is hooked to storyboard

I have a WKWebview that is if course hooked up to the file through storyboard. You can see it is hooked in this picture:

As you see both in storyboard and in the UIViewController file, the webView is hooked.

I get a nil from the webViewthe first time I call it in the viewDidLoadon line 36.

This is the error:
Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value

How can I get Xcode to recognize there is a web view??

EDIT
I load the VC like this:

let vc = joinFromInAppViewController()
vc.purchaseDate = purchaseDate
vc.purchaseEndDate = purchaseEndDate
vc.membershipPurchased = membershipPurchased
self.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

The ViewController where the webView is in:

import UIKit
import WebKit
import RevealingSplashView
import SwiftEntryKit

class joinFromInAppViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {
    
    @IBOutlet weak var webView: WKWebView!
    
    var purchaseDate: Int = 0
    var purchaseEndDate: Int = 0
    var membershipPurchased: String = ""
    
    let revealingSplash = RevealingSplashView(iconImage: #imageLiteral(resourceName: "RevealingSplashIconImage"), iconInitialSize: CGSize(width: 125, height: 125), backgroundColor: UIColor(red: 225/255, green: 32/255, blue: 62/255, alpha: 1.0))
        
    var attributesShow = EKAttributes.bottomFloat
        
    let defaults = UserDefaults.standard
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        view.addSubview(revealingSplash)
        revealingSplash.animationType = SplashAnimationType.heartBeat
        
        let myURL = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")
        let myRequest = URLRequest(url: myURL!)
        webView.navigationDelegate = self
        webView.load(myRequest)
        
        //revealingSplash.startAnimation()
        
    }
}

>Solution :

Set an id to the vc inside storyboard and load it like this

let vc = storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Id") as! IoinFromInAppViewController