Thanks for the response! In the actual composition I’m working on, I’m already in 3D and the element that is exploding is one of many things happening, so I can’t move the camera just for this text element. In my previous work with the explosion and smoke, I was motion tracking already, and so the static nature of the smoke that follows the explosion needed to motion track as well.
What is the white bounding box doing that I can’t move what’s inside it? I tried moving the layer, I tried moving the text element within the layer… nothing seemed to cause what I would have considered the anchor point for the text to gravitate towards to actually move.