What Does This Mean?

情弱ビジネス

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

FORCE: Degen EconomyUNIVERSE: Japanese Internet CultureCLUSTER: consumer_critique

情弱ビジネス (jōjaku bijinesu) is a Japanese label for businesses that target people with limited technical or practical knowledge, for example charging for device setup, app installation or account creation that users could often do themselves with a little research. Selling investment information products to uninformed buyers is also sometimes called this. It is a critical label used by observers, not a term businesses use for themselves.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Charging a monthly fee to install a free app is 情弱ビジネス, wrote one reviewer.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Weblio defines 情弱ビジネス (also 情弱向けビジネス, 情報弱者向けビジネス) as a general term for such businesses and gives the setup-fee and investment-information examples. 情弱 is the clipped form of 情報弱者. No dated first use is named. The existing joujaku and joujaku-shoho entries cover the base word and the related 商法; this one is the business-model label.

FIRST SEEN

Unknown (exact first use not documented)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2010s-2020s (Japanese internet)

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

Related To:情弱情弱商法

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JP情弱ビジネス →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

↓ FADING

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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DOCUMENTED SINCE

Unknown (exact first use not documented)

NOW

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