How to create a transparent background in Gimp | Select by Color Tool

When I try and hit CTRL+X to delete the selected color channel it simply flashes pink and doesn't turn the color channel to an alpha. Any ideas?

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how do i make it transparent

It’s not becoming transparent for me it’s making the background the colors I have and I don’t know how to make the color transparent

Hey, do you know why its not selecting the pixels once i let go? Been having this problem for days and its frustrating :/

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