Orbiter
also known as "Beta orbiter"
Orbiters (a.k.a.
beta orbiters) are boys/men who invest financial and/or non-financial resources (time, emotions, hard work) in a girl/woman, online or in the real life, in hopes of someday getting close to her like a boyfriend or just for physical relationship. Females may keep such males around either as backups for whatever male they're with, or (like in the case of some online celebrities) as sources of money, popularity, non-material help and support, etc.
There are different kind of orbiters:
The most popular maybe is the
LJBF orbiter ("let's just be friends" orbiter). This one is a male who makes an advance on a woman, who tells him "
Let's just be friends." He continues to hang around this woman as a "friend", hoping that she will develop romantic feelings for him and/or at least will let him to get closer to him physically.
In some rare cases the orbiters may become boyfriends or to get some short term intimacy. Usually they don't. And as a female user said here "If someone is (only) using you then it's just a lost cause." so being an orbiter isn't advisable (recommended).