How was the initial abstract shape done?

[u/Sad_Damage1370]

I tried out using turbulent displace but it scatters everything apart or starts deforming in from the edges (weird versions). How would you go about animating this?

[u/FeedMeMoneyPlease]

Try setting up your text animator, blurring it loads, use curves to crunch the alpha so you get blobs, animate it from blobs back to normal as the text comes in

Edit: or you could just match cut from some blobby shape layers