Tutorial Works - Splash Text Effect

I got this off a youtube video (i was bored and this was on my recommendations, i had just been watching PewDiePie playing Deadpool) and I thought this was pretty interesting, I don't think I did it right though somehow, oh well it came out looking pretty cool though, so i posted it.

if you are a GIMP 2.8 user here is the clip:
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if you have any questions feel free to ask, i feel like answering questions today for some reason