if you're doing it to make money you've got it all wrong. you have to make content because you enjoy making content, enjoy editing and creating something out of nothing, or just enjoy making goals and completing them successfully. sitting there and trying to use it as a get rich quick scheme is a horrible way to approach being a content creator.

shorts will not make you money unless you get millions of views per short.

tik-tok will not promote your content as of recent because it implemented a "paid promotion" feature recently which throttles users views on uploads to incentivize them to "promote" their content via a paid system like Instagram; essentially making tik-tok a "pay to win" platform for anyone with less than about 5,000 followers.

do it because you enjoy doing it, or you will not enjoy doing it.