They see themselves like that but that's also their reality, they don't know otherwise.

Depends on whether the author is breaking the fourth wall or not

In Star Trek SNW's crossover episode with Lower Decks (cartoon), Boimler's first comment when he meets the crew from SNW is that they look "very realistic"

Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks actually addressed that.

Depends on the author.

It depends on the author! Authors create symbolic universes and they get to choose the rules of those universes. You can read Robert McKee’s work for more on this.

I remember something with a cartoon character commenting on how live-action people look kind of disturbing and surreal. They noticed the difference, and it didn’t sit well with them. Their own uncanny valley.

In "Treehouse of Horror VI" Homer becomes 3D and comments how he's "so bulky".

In Peanuts, all adults would sound like "wah wah, wha wah wha wah wha wah", to which the children would respond as if they made perfect sense.

Then again, I prefer thinking about your second possibility so I'm going with that one:-).

Art style. But they don't notice it the same way you dont notice art style of people around you, and fish don't notice the water.

Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss have jokes about the art style. Sounds to me that the characters see each other the way we see them.

In Chip and Dale 2022, they explicitly refer to the "upgrade" to 3D rendering from the old painted style (like plastic surgery to them), so I assume they are fully aware of their art style.

Im not high enough to answer that!

Some times it's part of the plot, like in comics such as Gwenpool and 8-Bit Theater. But usually, from what I notice, how a character perceives the world around is not explained.

It depends on the work, in some it's symbolic and in some it's in-universe.

Most cartoons I assume they just see the world as it is in the cartoon. However SpongeBob SquarePants sees it the way it looks when they do those live action segments.

Ren & Stimpy see it as a cartoon, but they see it in the style of those super gross closeup shots. "It's hiiiiideous, Stimpy!" "I'm scared, Ren!"

Centaurworld is a pretty good example of characters being aware of their own animation style as one character slowly transforms between the two.

I’m not an authority on this but I believe that objectively a character WILL look like “that” but when viewed subjectively they look like “this”. So, in short, to answer your question: yes, but not really. I hope this helps.

Final Crisis had some of this with Thought Robot superman. Iirc they included 3D glasses so you could see Superman reach out to you in our realm one he gained concession of us. Check out some other Grant Morrison works for trippy meta fiction (pls read Animal Man)

There 2D is like our 4D. The same way we can't see 4D, they see 2D as normal and 3D is unachievable to them as for us 4D. Same with the style. They see themselves at the same style as what is normal to them.

Much like ourselves, they see each other in the cartoon style of their universe.

Do you see other people realistically, or like in Euclidean Space?