male/ -male -female -ambiguous is used for romantic or sexual situations with at least two visible characters

What exactly counts as a character?

• Someone physically present within the scene, in whole or in part (including things like disembodied hands)
• Someone interacting with the scene whose likeness is visible (e.g. on screen in a video call, a cutaway, etc.)
• Someone present in static media, such as a photograph, when only static character likenesses are present

Except if the following is true:

• They are tentacles. Those only count if they are attached to a visible creature (octopus, tentacle monster, etc.). That is, a picture of just tentacles would actually be tagged with zero pictured

Multiple occurrences of a character in a sequence, model sheet, etc are only counted once. For instance, a single character drawn in multiple poses is solo.