February signals the start of admitting YouTube Shorts creators into the partner program (i.e., its revenue-sharing model). You need at least 1K subscribers and 4K public watch hours in 12 months or 10M public views in the last 90 days. (YouTube)
Tilt Take: Sign up if you’re eligible, but don’t expect to get rich any time soon. Since the ads don’t appear inside your video as they do in longer videos, the revenue-sharing model isn’t as powerful.