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Even with this explanation, I still feel weird about this as an overall idea, especially since I could see it growing into a movement of various groups attempting to pay the way of various celebrities-as-attendees.
I’m completely on board with individual fundraising efforts spearheaded by people who themselves want to go (see Chicazul’s fez making or Joel Watson’s selling prints of his art). I’m also completely on board with “person X” giving the cruise as a gift to “beloved family member/best friend/otherwise intimately and personally known to them person Y.” Fans funding celebs who either can’t or would prefer not to raise the funds for themselves has some connotations that just feel a little … icky. An in-kind gift of such a high dollar value would also most likely have tax and possibly legal implications for anyone receiving it.