r/prolific

Hi everyone,

I need $1000 and I need a way to motivate myself, so this is the way I'm going to do it. I'm going to put daily updates on this post of my earnings and you can put yours here too if you want to join.

I'm using a spreadsheet to visually keep track of things, I'm started from zero and started tonight.

It's the 12th of May 2026, at 11:11pm UK Time.

If you struggle like me to financially motivate yourself and to keep your head down then I feel like this would be fun for all of us.

Cheers!

Now we are all happy, right? We just want to see them flooding. We know we won’t be able to do all of them, and they’ll be gone in the blink of an eye but we feel secure. Ιn the next drought, though, don’t start posting. Wishing everyone good earnings.

Guys, not everyone’s account and demographics are the same, what one outcome for a person may not be the same for another. So please stop comparing yourself to other participants, it makes you look desperate and quite childish. The kind of studies they receive it and the funds they are given on the platform varies! It all depends on your demographics, let me say it one more time for the people in the back, IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR DEMOGRAPHICS!!!!! I know MOST of you will come with hate and drama, believe me it won’t be read and you’ll be just proving me right and proving that your bank account have never seen a comma🤣 To everyone else, good luck with your studies and may you make all the MONAYYYYYYY LOL💋💃🏻🤑👩🏻‍💻👽👍🏼💕

Usually I haven't started after 5-6pmish EST lately, but been waiting since 3pmish EST and have only seen like 3 pop up, that I couldn't get into (not enough space).

Has the AI studies been popping up slowly for everyone else? Before, they would pop up slowly throughout the day, but then start flooding overnight. Now, recently these past few days, they’re not even popping up as much, and when they do, it’s full and hard to get into. Also, I haven’t had that flood at night like they normally do.

Anyone got AI Evaluation are they slow or coming normal ?

Posted the title on purpose and since this sub lacks a mod who’s at all interested…. Wondering if maybe we can have one post that we all post to each day or so to keep it near the top so the sub is not flooded with the same question 500 times a day.

My input is ….. they are tasks with highs and lows, if you’re new and have immediately been given access to them, it might seem great but this is not normal for prolific, it is not and never has been a platform where you have hundreds of tasks daily with a guaranteed income. Sometimes they disappear for a day or 2, sometimes they go away for weeks or months at a time for some people and no one really knows why. Sometimes they come in massive floods and you might think this is how it is all the time but it’s not.

Even if we just chat random shit to keep this near the top lol. Anyone got pets? Dogs? Cats? Tarantulas? lol.

I just started doing the AI studies a couple of months ago, did a bunch of them in about 10 days, got four quality issue messages, and then they disappeared off my dashboard for a few weeks. Now that I seem to be back in rotation I'm trying to be more careful (strategic?) to avoid the "quality issue" flags. It seems different people have different theories about what causes them and how to avoid them (God forbid they just give us a little bit of an explanation so we're not all wandering around Reddit trying to figure out how the fuck this works, while getting relentlessly downvoted)

But I feel like I've been getting more studies recently where the two video/audio choices are *the exact same*, time after time. If you just keep choosing equally good, then you risk getting flagged for quality issues. If you decide to choose one or the other and then that same question pops up later as an attention check and you can't distinguish which of the ones you chose from the first time, you risk getting flagged for quality issues. I've been trying to play it better safe than sorry and just returning the ones where I don't think I would be able to even choose the same option twice because they're so similar. I'm stressed trying to come up with 6K to afford my dog's surgery and I'm really relying on these damn things to help foot the bill, so I'm terrified of getting kicked out of them again.

Anyone else finding themselves saying this now?

I had a full week of 100+ studies, then 4-5days nothing, then 100+ again, now honestly my dashboard has been dead since Friday night :(

There are tons of ‘AI Videos - Evaluation’ surveys every day and I can’t take a single one because I use a 15” laptop. The survey screen size requirements are 1920x1080 pixels. My screen has a max of 1366x768. If I mirrored my laptop screen onto my tv instead, would I be able to take the survey then?

This isn't a retaliatory post either; I still see the AI studies, but just letting you all know they really don't care how many good submissions you've made. I am also aware of the approved submissions vs. rejection = account hold ratios that exist, but that's not the point of this post.

Prolific is also not a "job", it is a gig and it's apparent that this is not obvious to every participant. You are replaceable to them. They are reporting higher profit than ever as well as more active users than ever. You are not important to them; it costs them basically nothing except their scripted onboarding process and identity checks to have a new user sign up, so please just keep that in mind.

You might be thinking "hey all participants already know this", but if you try typing the keywords "not fair" or "unfair" into the subreddit search bar, you'll see many posts with comments like that, showing implication that they deserve something other than just the $ for finishing the study or being screened out.