#LesbianSpacePrincess is the hashtag for the 2025 Australian adult-animated space-comedy directed by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese — a Sundance debut and Berlin Crystal Bear winner whose August 2026 wider Netflix release triggered the internet-wide #GreatFandomTruce, the month’s most-tracked meme event.
Quick Facts
- Directors: Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese (feature debut)
- Country: Australia
- Genre: adult animated science-fiction comedy
- Premiere: 2025 Sundance Film Festival
- Berlin Crystal Bear: Best Film, Generation 14plus, 2025
- Wider release: August 2026 on Netflix
- Reception: sharply mixed critical and fan response; anchored the #GreatFandomTruce
The Film
Lesbian Space Princess follows Princess Saira, a socially inept and hopeless-romantic 23-year-old lesbian from the planet Clitopolis, who lives with her two mothers. When her ex-girlfriend Kiki is abducted by antagonists called the Straight White Maliens, Saira leaves her home planet — for the first time — to attempt a rescue. The film blends musical numbers, character animation styled after tabletop-cartoon aesthetics, and a queer-coded science-fiction premise.
Critical Reception
Reviews split into two camps. On the positive end, UK Film Review and The People’s Movies both praised the film’s design work, playful visual invention, and the wholeheartedness of its queer central story, with several reviewers predicting cult-classic status. On the more critical end, reviewers found the humor uneven and the underlying narrative conventional despite the surface novelty; a strand of criticism argued that the film’s sensibility was ultimately “safe and sanitized” relative to its premise.
The Crystal Bear at Berlin’s Generation 14plus section — awarded by a youth jury for best film — remains the most significant award in the film’s run, alongside the Sundance premiere slot.
Cultural Impact
The film’s cultural moment came less from the reviews than from the reception dynamic itself. After its August 2026 Netflix release, mockery of the film jumped fandom lines: Hazbin Hotel, Jujutsu Kaisen, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and multiple anime communities began posting “Just This Once” handshake memes uniting against it. On August 22, 2026, TikTok user @blitzing00 posted a multi-fandom truce edit that cleared 1.5 million views and 232,800 likes in two days. Know Your Meme named the resulting #GreatFandomTruce its Meme of the Month for August 2026, ahead of #LaPeace and #PetraParker.
For the film itself, the meme wave was a double-edged event: it drove a sharp spike in Netflix search interest and post-view discussion, while cementing the mixed-to-negative reception frame in most casual viewers’ impressions.
Variations & Related Tags
- #LSP — the short form
- #GreatFandomTruce — the meme event triggered by the Netflix release
- #JustThisOnce — the associated catchphrase
- #PrincessSaira — the film’s protagonist