I’m excited for the upcoming changes to the new YouTube shorts monetization rules. To get accepted to the YouTube partner program you need 20,000,000 views in the last 90 days. To get paid from shorts you need to maintain atleast 10,000,000 views in the last 90 days. Unfortunately for some creators this means if you got 9,000,000 views in 90 days you get paid nothing for your shorts. As someone who always tries to find the positive in corporate changes, I hope this allows YouTube to pay creators more for short form views. I also hope this discourages AI slop and low quality shorts to disappear. If people can’t make money they will move on.