I was indeed able to solve my own problem, yay 2+ hours of troubleshooting finally paid off!
I wanted the text to be white and read "Check this video now!", but the background was a light color so it conflicted with the white text. To rectify this issue I created a rectangle shape, made it black and lowered opacity to 40% and threw it behind the text. In order to get the button below the text that says "Click here!" I was able to use a copy+paste glitch by pasting the trio into the caption textbox for an image, thus allowing me to have a unique caption for each picture in an automated slideshow. The problem arose due to a graphic icon's notion to stay on top of the text no matter how it is pasted in to the textbox but I was able to figure out that if you group the text on top of the rectangle BEFORE pasting into the caption's textbox then the text will stay on top of the graphic! Yay problem has been (at least for now) solved!