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Plotting a word cloud in the shape of Big Bird works fine, but Tooltips seems to stop working when I superimpose the image.

Here is the word cloud: 

background = Import["https://i.stack.imgur.com/LB4EY.png"];
mask = ColorNegate@Dilation[DeleteSmallComponents[Binarize[background, 0.9]], 1];
data = EntityValue[CountryData[], {"Name", "Population"}]; 
wc = WordCloud[{Tooltip[#[[1]], #[[2]]], #[[2]]} & /@ data, mask, 
     ImageSize -> ImageDimensions[background]]

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While you can't see it in the image on Stackexchange, if you mouse over the entries in Mathematica, you can see a Tooltip pop up for each entry. Now I want to superimpose the Big Bird image because it's hard to tell what the shape is. Here are two ways to do it:

Overlay[{SetAlphaChannel[background, 0.2], wc}]
ImageCompose[SetAlphaChannel[background, 0.2], wc]

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Observe that in both the above, the Tooltips stop working. Does anyone know how to superimpose the image on the graphic so that the Tooltips will continue to function?

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Use the 3-arg version of Overlay:

Overlay[{SetAlphaChannel[background, 0.2], wc}, All, 2]
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    $\begingroup$ That seems to work. I guess now I understand the meaning of the third argument! $\endgroup$
    – bill s
    Aug 3, 2018 at 23:40

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