If i use any term for my character i mostly use toon and char or character only if the person im talking to doesnt understand what i mean by toon.
It has nothing to do with some hating or stuff i just dont think of toon as something even remotely offending.
Its easyer to write when typing at lightning speed too. I dont understand the fuss. Amazing how some people lash out with words like retard, blacklisting threats and so on, its actually a quite cartoonish (oversubscribed (not sure if thats the right term), exeggerated) response.
And no its not from WoW as some ppl in this thread already stated.