Does a youtube video with a still image (ex. music) drain as much mobile data as a moving video (gameplay, etc.), and why/why not?

Question

Does a youtube video with a still image (ex. music) drain as much mobile data as a moving video (gameplay, etc.), and why/why not?

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Answer 1

I don’t see an ELI5 answer. So here’s mine:

You only get sent what’s changed for each frame of the video. So if the video doesn’t change in each frame, nothing gets sent except a tiny bit of timing information.