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A Person who works extensively with a Cruise Director (a/k/a Social Planner) to find out his/her group's social plans, but does not, and never intended to, actually participate. Generally does this simultaneously with many different Cruise Directors to ensure his/her being included in several concurrent events.

The Plan Collector may run an internal algorithm to determine the "most fun" event, and go with that, or simply do nothing, resting assured that they could have done "something". May resurface, possibly years later, to ask how it went, and get details of the next event. Long term use of collected plan data is unknown and suspicious.

Etymology: coined by Cindy (2005), details contributed by Scott

Synonyms: Census Taker (coined by Scott)
Don't worry about Bob, he's a Plan Collector and won't actually join us.
by JaimeG June 22, 2007
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Apr 30 Word of the Day
A buzz word being used to refer to creators and influencers forming or encouraging unhealthy relationships with their fans. Usually used in the context of young audiences feeling they have a relationship with the influencer due to the huge amount of the influencer’s content they consume. The influencer in question, however, is unaware of the fan’s existence other than the general knowledge of having fans. Common examples include Dream and his stans. These relationships are exacerbated by the influencers confirming they have more than a creator-to-viewer relationship.

The word is circulating due to various YouTube essays about the phenomenon using the word, and therefore people who enjoy complaining about influencers repeating what they heard in the video in any comments section they can find.
I can’t believe that creator encourages parasocial relationships with his fans...

Man what a parasocial relationship :/
by SodaScarf April 12, 2021
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