Your video is good. Your description reads like a terms-of-service page. Viewers bounce, and the algorithm reads that bounce as "skip this." The fix isn't writing it by hand — it's humanizing the AI draft before it goes under the video.
Why generated descriptions sink
- Keyword stuffing up front. "In this video we talk about AI writing tools productivity SEO" is the sound of a bot farming search. YouTube's caption reader and viewers both tune it out.
- The same three links, the same four sentences in every description. Templates get skimmed, not clicked.
- Zero personality. No "if you've fought this too, the timestamp is at 4:12" line that makes a viewer feel seen.
The workflow I use
- Draft ugly. Let AI produce the skeleton: hook, chapters, links. Speed first, voice later.
- Humanize one pass. Run it through a fixed prompt — vary sentence length, cut 30% of the words, ban premium/robust/seamless, add one concrete detail (a timestamp, a result). The full prompt set for video, social, and blog copy is here: https://felovery.gumroad.com (code FIRST50 = 50% off, no expiry).
- Score before you publish. Paste the description into a free AI-risk scorer: https://humanizeai-lab.pages.dev/tools/ai-risk-scorer.html — if it's over 40%, it'll read as AI to a viewer in the first two lines, and they scroll past.
A description that sounds like a person gets the click, the chapter jump, and the subscribe. The bot one gets the bounce.
What's the video topic you've been putting off because the description felt like homework?
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