So right this split second if you're on the right markets - Bitcoin + BCH + BTG + BTX = $10,200 ish.
Without all the splits McAfee would almost certainly be eating his dick soon.
The other way round.
Spell it out for me like I'm 5 please.
I believe the idea is that without the forks all the money spent on them would have gone into bitcoin.
I don't see it, personally. There are probably more gambling-type speculators than hodlers, possibly by orders of magnitude. Otherwise the forks would be worth almost literally nothing at this point.