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Perhaps the iPhone is scaling the image down so much you lose the thin outline around the foreground figure?

Try on a tablet or desktop.

Can you see the edges between the diamond and the background? Typically, the motion occurs when you can see the edges, and disappears when you are far enough away to make the edges too thin to be seen.

i didn't really find it compelling until the point in the video when they change the direction