The speaker notes that YouTube is currently paying significantly less for Shorts than the projected rate. They provide an example of a $2,500 payout received on October 31, 2021, for Shorts.
"but i'm not they're paying me much less and we're going to see here in a little in a minute um what that number looks like and i've got a it's not letting me switch we're going to go here and here's where the numbers start looking a lot better we'll go back to the last 30 days granted this includes me having a full month off of youtube um because of chronovirus me being sick and here's a little a little um payment from shorts can you see it in one day i made two thousand five hundred dollars because they decided to pay me out on shorts on october the 31st 2021"
