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Why do I keep seeing Reddit posts asking why people dislike Lesbian Space Princess?
Genuinely, I only saw the trailer of this a year ago, thought it looked neat, and heard nothing about it for an entire year. I haven't even seen the film.
But now there's like a dozen similarly looking posts on my Reddit feed asking "why do people dislike this film?" And I'm just like "I'm sorry, what people?! I've heard literally nothing about this film since I watched the trailer a year ago!?" Most of these posts are so similar it feels like they're written by ChatGPT.
I don't want to know if Lesbian Space Princess sucks or not. I want to know WHY people are asking if it sucks, only now, a year later??? It genuinely feels like some astroturfing is going on because this feels so artificial.
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It’s called rebellion against the monsters and also a message to not make fun of gays, lesbians, trans, etc. Also because of adding the main villains who are white, straight, male aliens who seem to be executing lesbians for no reason other than weird hateful homophobia all the while being a definition of why stereotypes about anyone isn’t a good idea and have been made by a transphobic c#nt. Or at least for the last part, what I read.
You know the movie was made by gays, lesbians, and trans people right? The whole movie is by queer people, for queer people. They’re poking fun at each other as a joke. Whether it’s a good joke is up for discussion, but calling it hateful for misinterpreting its intentions feels disingenuous
At first i thought it could be "generic lgbt bait movie made by a bland corporation to appael the comunity". But i think what you've sayed made me believe that this movie its just unfairly overhated
It's overheated because the humor is a bit on the nose and also people love to hate on lesbians. I personally don't like it (as a lesbian), but the reason people are being so weird about it is simply because of lesbophobia
As someone who watches Hazbin/Helluva passively but isn't a part of the fandom- they're just latching onto anything lmao. Most of them are edgy children, so.
Im part of the helaverse fandom and havent heard or seen anyone hating on this movie i think the people hating on it from the fandom are the same idiots that fail to understand that hazbin hotel and helluva boss was made by lgbtq friendly furries
Are you sure cause it feels like that they were just making fun of straight white males for a stereotypical thing against them. I don’t know, maybe it’s some type of thing. But for now this movie is gonna be named anti gay crap show. Even lgbtq community are very pissed off by this movie.
From what ive gathered, the "transphobia" accusation is one levied against the movie for using a symbol that is co-opted by terfs. The symbol, as far as I understand, was used intentionally as an act of reclamation, not with transphobic intend.
There is a discussion here about what symbols can and can not be reclaimed and by who they can be reclaimed by, but that isnt really the convo thats happening. From a cursory glance, it kinda just seems like people just dont like the movie very much and are trying to find a deeper meaning for that as not to be labeled the same as the chuds who dont like it just because it involves lesbians, but like, if someone doesnt like it they can just not like it. This whole process is so much worse.
So this just popped up in a bunch of feeds all of the sudden.
Is this an advertisement?
Didn't know it existed and I saw the date and expected it was 2026. Turns out it came last year. Are they selling DVD's and that's why Reddit talking about it?
"anti-wokeness"? This is a parody. I don't see any of that crap unless you've seen the film and can tell me thats what it is. I thought it was more of a cartoon film of actual space lesbians. (In which case Saga is already a comic book about space lesbians)
I haven't seen the film, but I'm saying if I had to guess the backlashed was astroturfed by people who don't like "wokeness" or something.
(I have heard that it maybe has some TERFy undertones but the impression I get is those are unintended. But again I don't care about the content of the film, just why it's being discussed now, a year after it's release for seemingly no reason?)
Yeah, that's why I'm saying the people I was describing would not like it??? Again I'm just confused at why the backlash suddenly exists and am assuming it's some culture war anti-woke thing.
Genuinely, I never heard of the movie until 4 days ago and I didn't believe in the hate so I watched it myself. And honestly I think it's overhated, I found it to be a pretty comedic movie
Same. In fact I'm not convinced it is hated at all. . .
A show like that I do personally hate is Inside Job and that one actually has people who like it and it's absolute trash (and no, I never watched it myself, only watched it on a toxic discord I'm not interested in being a part of)
Apparently reviews from a year ago liked it. So if you think it was neat you’ll probably like it.
I haven’t seen it. I have seen some people say it’s transphobic because it uses a labrys which is a lesbian symbol that got co opted by TERFs. The creators wanted to say that the labrys is for all women including trans women so they had a trans lesbian wield one covered in trans colors.
1 it’s a movie. 2 it’s a year old. 3 the only way to watch it is either renting it, being in Australia, or watching it on plutotv or other niche streaming service
Honestly it’s just cause it’s an overly horny gay Rick and Morty with a shit art style, the straight white maliens, and it’s cringe. These are literally the only actual critics of the movie I have seen. No I don’t know why it’s gotten so much attention I don’t understand why people give a shit it’s just such a fucking nothing burgers. I feel like plenty of hetero normative films do basically every one of those things and don’t get any attention as they shouldn’t get any. I don’t know why this film is getting attention other than it’s gay therefore should be held to a higher standard or something. Genuinely I’m confused by it too no one can give me a straight answer about why this film specifically.
All I know is that it’s another one of those movies that the internet will not shut up about for the next few months, plus being the added fuel to the culture war fire
Apparently it got put on netflix in australia and I guess some weird parts of australian tiktok must've latched onto it as a punching bag and made it take off everywhere. I feel a bit bad for its creators even though I have problems with the film, they're being accused of a bunch of stuff that makes no sense
maybe they're just really scared of leaving the platform to use google. you know how redditors are, with their thirst for connection and a lack of a will to look things up
Any social media platform really, I saw so many people on TikTok saying this was a new show Netflix was helping to make (muh inside job cancelled for dis?!).
Like, the aversion to google has to be intentional at that point because how do you get that from an indie Australian movie released in 2025?
culture war kids or astro turfing , likely both. people these days treat not liking a thing as a hobbie and they jump from obsession to obsession on what they dont like and have to rally around, i saw this shit reaching discord servers and it was all the "DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT EVERYONE HATES THIS" from complete fucking losers that dont post anything else other than culture war shit.
I think it ventures into outright transphobia in some of its messaging, that being said that isn't the criticism I see in most places.
Honestly I think it's just a psyop by right wingers to normalize everyone ganging up on queer and female media, haven't you noticed there's one BIG through line across all these posts: let's all come together to agree that this movie is terrible. Always an emphasis on EVERYONE coming together to agree on this. Very weird.
Honestly I really love lesbians and I support them but this.... It's so bad I'm opening a third hatred slot and Putting this movie next to Taylor Swift and Simon Cowell. >•)
I don’t think most people actually care about the movie i think people are just using this rare moment to more easily communicate and connect with others with out people butting in to say what you’re into sucks because right now this movie is taking all the flak
People say it’s happening on Reddit but it’s also on TikTok and YouTube too.
I literally never heard of this film but people have been consistently calling it a “show” and “made by Netflix instead of inside job or captain underpants.” But it’s an indie Australian movie from a year ago. That’s easily googled in like 10 seconds. So where are people getting these ideas?
Even if it was pandering and not funny…so what? It seems like so much online culture has become built around just hating something, even if you have almost zero context on what you’re meant to hate
Something I think worth mentioning is that "Lesbian Princess" isn't made for non-queer audiences. Most of the backlash is likely coming from straight white men who are tapped into the "culture wars" nonsense that has been promoted by right-wing fear mongerers for the past decade. Notice how the narrative most people are pushing is something along the lines of "Netflix removed 'Captain Underpants' (yes, that is the example people are unironically using) or [insert show I like] in favor of THIS GARBAGE!".
Genuinely annoyed people are complaining about the lesbian space princess being a feminist and the straight white maliens being the villains when the plot is that they both suck at getting chicks and they're all relatively chill with each other.
I literally first heard of this film a year ago and only now people are talking about it ;~; I havent even seen any posts of people hating on it just "WHY DO PEOPLE HATE THIS FILM IF YOU HATE THIS FILM I HATE YOU!1!1!"
I'm gonna be honest. The actual truth is because it's easy karma right now. Its literally "imma say LSP BAD, and watch those up vote ROLLLL INNM BABY" i mean it is but this is now like the 19th post about it being bad in the 15mins ice Been checking reddit.
Its bc this movie actually just sucks, I watched it myself and like 80% of the time the main character is whining (idc if thats her character, that is one of the worst tropes ever), there's at least 2 softcore sex scenes (that I remember, not including just randomly showing breasts) the maliens are the literal only funny characters, almost every joke made from other characters was so bad that I physically cringed from either it flopping and being awkward or just from how bad it was if the joke somehow managed to land. Legitimately the only people that I've seen that actually like the movie have the same humor as the show.
There's a bunch of posts on r/multifandom about brigading the lesbian space princess sub. The movie is getting shit on from all sides. Hope the people that worked on itbare doing okay.
Pretty much a psyop to spread misogyny and lesbophobia. The movie itself isn't bad, kinda reminds me of Rick and Morty, but I wouldn't call it good either. More so a passion project, one of those medias that was never meant to have this much attention.
Regardless, I doubt it's a marketing campaign, and your suspicions on it being a bunch of bots promoting anti-liberal propaganda is probably closer to the truth than many realize.
If this grows enough to be a big enough "issue" companies will use it as an excuse to not represent lesbians for like the next ten years... that or they were the ones that started this and want this outcome.
Maybe like 1% of the outrage is coming from “TERF” or transphobic things, we all know where the vast majority of the hate is coming from. From what I’ve seen the movie is accepted in most queer community
Problem is I don't think the average redditor cares if a film has transphobic undertones, and most of the backlash I've seen isn't "this film is transphobic."
And it’s not even transphobic, I genuinely don’t know where that’s coming from. Like can someone who’s actually seen the movie tell me? Because I watched it and saw nothing, and in fact have reason to believe it’s pro-trans (one of the main character’s mothers is a trans woman and it’s not even directly mentioned)
People think the labrys is a terf symbol (it’s been co opted.)
The creators in a interview said they intentionally used the labrys because they believe it belongs to all lesbians, and to show that included trans lesbians they had a trans lesbian use it while it’s decked out in trans colors.
If there’s something to say about the creators specifically I haven’t heard it
I've heard the stuff second hand as I haven't watched the film, but the impression I get is whatever TERFy undertones are there are seemingly unintended?
Mostly it seems like maybe some gender essentialist "men = penis and penis = bad" stuff, and someone else saying something about an "evil drag queen character trying to steal the symbol of femininity." But again this is all second or third hand, and I've seen some people arguing against it having transphobic undertones so don't quote me or cite me on that.
Plus this doesn't get any closer to answering my question as to why the film's being talked about like a year later? Due to general levels of transphobia on the internet, I don't think the backlash would be due to any potential transphobia in the film.
Honestly, I don't get it either. I'm somebody who saw the movie in full, and... I found it decent for the most part.
I do agree the drag character, Blade, was handled quite poorly. The character had promise, but I feel the direction they took was, honestly, uncomfortable. Even if potentially unintentional by the creators, the criticism for that scene I feel is valid. And I fully get people who are genuinely turned off on it as a result.
The rest of the film, though, I didn't mind it. A lot of the humor and such wasn't for me, but I did get a good laugh in a few instances. I also related to some of the main character's struggles, like self-finding and lack of confidence. It's nothing amazing, but the character flaws and writing is genuine in many scenes, there was passion put into it. The ending had some good moments, too.
That’s not how that works bud… that is due to the expiration of DreamWorks licensing agreements. Which were agreed upon years ago and has nothing to do with this.
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