Cloudplane is a collective-focused directory, opened to the public on January 2021. The name was thoughtfully created using a combination of both words cloud and plane. Cloud is a term that may be imagined as an abstract representation of an emotion and plays a significant role in expressing the feeling the artist wants to convey. Plane is a term for level of existence, thought, or development and creates imaginary scene in your mind that corrolates with what you're trying to visualize. Together, the name becomes more meaningful as every web owners are considered as artists in their own way.

This web directory mainly based on collective websites specifically for categories anime, manga, and video game. Back in the early 2000's, there were abundance of creative collectives, big or small. Either way, every sites are unique representations of the creator and web directories created niche spaces that enabled this kind of discovery and connection.