How do I make it clear I didn't use AI to create my video?
I make "greenscreen meme" videos where I cut a person out of a TV show and put them in a different show/game/etc. You might have seen ones from other channels like "Sopranos in Skyrim" or "Gordon Ramsay in Minecraft".
How do I let my audience know that I made my video "by hand" and it's not just pieced together from AI-generated videos? I spent over 100 painstaking hours manually creating my most recent video and I keep getting comments accusing me of using AI and how terrible it is.
I totally understand why people are wary of this but it's clearly not AI and it's just frustrating to keep hearing. Do you do anything to try and remedy this? I've put in the description what TV shows I used footage from and that I made it with After Effects etc., and I've also put a pinned comment to say the "Altered or synthetic content" label YouTube makes you put on videos like this doesn't actually mean it's AI generated.
I feel like putting a big red "[No AI]" stamp on the thumbnail but I think that would make it more cluttered. The title is also long enough as it is so maybe adding a label/disclaimer to it would be too much.
I bet the easiest and best solution to this problem is probably "Just ignore it" but it's hard. I don't want to end up losing lots of views because people assume AI before watching.
Last time I posted a similar video in 2025, I didn't really get any of these comments, have things changed a lot recently?