Hey Snow.
Deemed well liked by the author, or the community?
The characters I uploaded I crafted to be unique among all the submissions and characters that I have seen. Simple as that, no one else has done it, so I did it. Can't exactly tell you where my compass for beauty was crafted, but I follow it.
As for the community, and I can only speak for things that I have submitted I'm conflicted with what well liked means. I looked at the post that has the most upvotes, but found that the images themselves had the least views to date. In contrast, a certain couple of glamour shots that were uploaded in another post racked up hits in record time, --with multiple downloads per connection-- yet were not upvoted as much. So I don't really know what the community likes.
Never claimed to of course, I just felt like sharing a couple of characters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel the same way about uploads that have a ton of makeup, it adds a stigma of "fakeness" to an already fictional character, imo. Not to say I haven't seen some excellent applications, where it really makes the character's face sing.
The Gon thickness thing is predictable; this is a subset of a specific quality of beauty. Just the same, when people go overboard with the sliders, it just looks bizarre. ...Though there are some things I have a higher tolerance for ignoring. People who craft these characters probably share some certain suspension of disbelief when it comes to proportions, and see no issue.