Fair statement. It does take a couple of weeks to get into PSILY as an unknown. That would hopefully still allow time to publish a few stories within a month with a larger pub, like PSILY (they take between 1–3 days to publish generally). This story earned most of that amount between the 21st and 26th of the month, just after it was published. When I was brand new on Medium I was added within a week to PSILY and published a few days later. It’s very doable.