Why are text tones downloaded as ring tones?

I purchased 2 what I thought were text tones for my iphone.  However, they were downloaded to my ringtones.  I do NOT want ringtones that say "You have a text".  That's just dumb.  Not sure why they would even put those in the ringtone options.  Is there any way to move them on my phone?  If not, I just wasted my money.  (Spent an hour trying to find help on apple/itune website.  Not user friendly!)

There are no customized text tones at the moment.
ONLY ringtones.
You CANNOT customize text tones at all.  There are NO text tones other than the standard ones.  None.  At all.

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