I assume he added up the number of times people have used the image and multiply it by some fee. But he's wrong. If there were a fee to use this image, basical

I assume he added up the number of times people have used the image and multiply it by some fee. But he's wrong. If there were a fee to use this image, basically zero people would use it. They'd all go to midjourney and make their own better images for free.