 Amateur authors may also create characters out of personifications of abstract concepts (such as the personification of countries in "") or complementary objects like salt and pepper.In Japan, the labelling of "yaoi" "dōjinshi" is typically composed of the two lead characters' names, separated by a multiplication sign, with the "seme" being first and the "uke" being second.While "Gundam Wing" does not have explicit gay romance content, its first airing in North America via Cartoon Network in 2000, five years after its initial broadcast in Japan, was crucial to Western fan creation of "yaoi" fiction, as noted by McHarry in his article that performs a reading of "Western "yaoi" story" with ideas of gender theorists such as Judith Butler and Eve Sedgewick.