fujo (“a female fan of yaoi or slash fiction”) + bait
fujobait (uncountable)
- (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An anime, manga, or other piece of media created to appeal to fujoshi.
2016 October 10, med 👽 AX J9 (@daikonhime), Twitter[1]:thoughts watching yuri on ice: this is the most incredible fujobait and i am biting down on this bait so fucking hard
2021 March 26, Chara (@hunipyons), Twitter[2]:anime companies at their board meetings trying to decide which sport to base their fujobait anime series next [screenshot of the sport selection menu from Wii Sports Resort]
2022 January 27, Lindsey (@lindsey_batdorf), Twitter[3]:Friendly reminder that in 2019 the Chinese government commissioned a fujobait anime about Karl Marx
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fujobait.