how is the toony tag supposed to be used on furbooru?

Theres an user who repeatedly removes the toony tag from posts I uploaded and even from other posts I didnt upload and I wanna ask how is this tag supposed to work?
There ain’t any wiki for toony, so I rely off the definition from e6 which states toony is an artstyle and I tag based on that factor. each post I gave this tag to had a distinct cartoony artstyle.
This user was on furbooru for 4 years, so maybe they know something I don’t? I dont wanna undo every toony removal from posts if I’m not using the tag correctly. Who’s in the wrong? Me or that guy?
Strangest of all some posts were tagged toony although they arent, you can see my name the few times I removed the tag
https://furbooru.org/tags/toony/tag_changes
and that user didnt remove the tags themselves, so what is this mess

It’s not a tag that’s used on this site.

It could be, but we’d need to establish what it means first.

Can you give a description of what toony means? What is the “distinct cartoony artstyle” that people might be searching for, or that they would wish to hide, that is uniquely identifiable and that can be quantified?

Is it a reference only to images from the “Golden Age of Animation”? Does it indicate the images have anthropomorphism, or distortion of reality, or highly developed background art?

If it helps, can you describe how toony is different from other tags that refer to a ‘style’ of art, like 2d or 3d or traditional art?

Right now, it sounds like toony means you think it looks a certain kind of cartoonish. But how do you turn that into something others can agree with and use too? How do you define it such that everyone else in the community will know what they are going to get when they search for toony, or what they will avoid getting when they filter it?

@LatexUmbreon
I’d say that you have done nothing wrong. It must feel frustrating to get counteracted in this way, especially if the other party does not even elaborate.

that’s the definition from e6, it’s pretty clear imo

I would define it as being very simplified art with exaggerated facial expressions and body parts (not necessarily to the point where the size tags (big, huge and hyper) are needed) and a general lack of a skeleton in characters, for example they have “spaghetti limbs” and are thin with large hands nd feet usually.

There is a gray area in tagging these, but I reckon the main thing that’s mandatory for a tag like this to stick is for a simplified artstyle with little to no shading and good facial expressions.

This image is toony.

That image isn’t toony.

Kemono is the Japanese Kemonā subculture of fans of anthropomorphic animal characters. Which means it would apply to every single image on this site. So, I still don’t know how it is useful here. To use your own use of the tag as an example, You added it to these images:

The first seems to me to be a ‘gesture sketch’ (which we don’t have a tag for here) rather than ‘art that is stylized or simplified in the manner of cartoons and comics’. The second doesn’t seem anywhere like the same style as the first is. And I don’t know how an image that we tag as chromatic aberration could be considered flat_colors.

Have you tried just using flat colors? Does that give you what you’re looking for?

I guess, for me, it’s not clear at all what this tag would be for, or how it would be useful.

Re:

Please use on-site links. For example, your first image would be:

>>356543t

Which results in this, and makes it possible for people to click it to see which image you mean, and also ensures that everyone’s filters are able to work:

But, again with this example, that’s not a solid fill. So the ‘toony’ tag wouldn’t be proper on it.

flat colors is too general and I can find art that isn’t toony.

Facial expression isn’t exaggerated (rather generic-looking ahegao), the body proportions aren’t exaggerated and there’s nothing else that suggests it’s cartoony, not even cartoon physics like inflation or flattening.

Likewise with this picture and it has flat colors too.

The 2 posts I tagged were tagged right-ish, I dunno for the first one now that you bring it up, I think ‘sketch’ would’ve been better, but the second is definitely tagged correctly. Chromatic aberration is an added photoshop effect layer, the image underneath is still technically flatly colored.

I would have tagged that post flat colors if I thought of it because solid fill or not it’s still flat colors.
Solid fill is not important it’s if the drawing is shaded or not. Like so:

This one wouldn’t be toony.