Stop quoting a single number you saw on a podcast
YouTube ad money is often discussed as RPM, revenue per thousand views, and it swings hard by niche. Twitch subs and bits have published splits that the company can change. TikTok gifts and creator funds or rewards programs have their own rules and have been revised before. Anyone promising "$X per 1,000 views" without your niche and your country is guessing.
Export last month from the platform. That is your number. Compare it to the hours you worked. If the hourly rate is silly, the business is the other offers, not the ad check.