Midjourney had a Discord server with more than 15 million members in 2023. That extraordinary size reflected both the popularity of generative image tools and Midjourney's early decision to make Discord the main place where users submitted prompts and viewed generated images.
Midjourney entered open beta on July 12, 2022, and users initially interacted with its image-generating bot through Discord commands such as /imagine. Public channels let newcomers watch prompts and results appear in real time, while also creating a large social showcase for the tool. The company later expanded beyond Discord with a web interface, but Discord was central to its early growth.
The figure describes members of a Discord server, not necessarily paying subscribers or unique active users. It also does not mean Midjourney was the only major AI image generator. DALL-E and Stable Diffusion were prominent alternatives, while Leonardo AI emerged as another competing platform. Midjourney was founded by David Holz and is known for generating images from natural-language prompts.