I've rented servers for high-traffic websites with no income for years. If it's something you love to run, and you can afford it, then it's just the cost of your hobby. Not everything is a business.
If he is as really rich as you suggest it seems odd to me that he would complain about Cloudflare and not have rented a 100 TB server sooner. They are not exactly difficult to find.
Whether he can tell us if he is rich or found another way to monetize adult or potentially offensive content, it is up to him to share.
$200/mo is not "rich," it is what you would spend on a hobby (think a membership to a climbing gym or buying a new gaming computer once a year). Being able to spare $3000+/mo for CloudFlare enterprise is not even close to a comparison.
Now this might just be my opinion, but considering many of the people I know in the technology field have a disposable income of around $1k/month, I don't think there's very many people that would throw away 20% of it on an image dump. If you make more than that, then you are rich by my standards.
See, for me it's not an "image dump", but a nice hobby project. Managing a community as well as the technical challenges this site presents is interesting. I can spare $200 but not $3000.
Also, I learned a great deal of JavaScript while building that page and I just now learned a bit about load balancing and setting up Varnish - something which may come handy for godknowswhat. I never imagined making my living by writing a JS game engine either.
