For server rendered animations, all the frames might be delayed due to geographical distance, but the time gap between the arrival of individual frames is not affected by geographical distance. The server is not waiting for the client to request the next frame, it’s always pushing.

For the user, it’s similar to watching a streaming video after letting it buffer a bit.

For interactive elements, every interaction has to go through the round trip. So the gap between interactions is affected by distance.

Server rendered games would suffer much more than server rendered animation.