It has been a long time since the shortening links site Shorte.st paid his publisher last time.
Instead , the site posted that there are some difficulties in August 2020,but actually it stopped paying his publisher long time before that .
In the net there are some posts and videos for couple of it's publishers that they talking about that .
Here is one example video with a title "shorte.st not paying?" of a youtuber who used to publish shorte.st links in his stuff and has been stucked for a lot of time (more than 1 year) without being paid .