When I made Something Borrowed, I had stashed a checkpoint of the base merges that I've been having a lot of fun with. I decided to rebuilt it toward a Noob scope. So I did what I could.
Big thank you to the folks whose checkpoints contributed to this melting pot:
Basically, I upgraded AutismMix to Noob and merged it with Mistoon_Anime Noob. waiNSFW and Toonify's models didn't want to updoot to noob, but I upgraded their clips and merged them all the same. Then I took both models into the finals and smashed them into each other to get Something Noob.
For general purposes, Something Noob seems to operate best between CFG 1.0 and 3.0. CFG 1.0 creates darker imagery and brightness increases with the setting. Running beyond that seems functional if you increase your steps to compensate.
I've been using DPM3++ SDE for this one, mostly Karras. I've been having fun pre-noising images by running them at ~0.5 Denoising in Txt2Img then Hi-Res fixing them with an ancestral sampler at the same denoising strength. If you change the prompt between the initial generation and upscale, you can get some interesting results.
The most powerful token I've found in this thing is "colorful background." Style loras tend to override it while detailers can dial backgrounds up to 11 or change how they present (i.e. addmicrodetails quickly turns everything into a technicolor orgasm but I stillrun it at 0.1 just to give things a touch of microtouch).