Developing a theory of the Skinny Rat Boy archetype in which there is a precise length of too-long stringy hair that shifts the character from piteous but maybe hot?? to Villainy

Mitch from Dazed and Confused: shoulder length hair, innocent
Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire season 2: mostly in "overdue for a haircut" territory, more pitiful than villain but still kinda sucks
That guy in the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror: basically bottom of the neck, absolutely a predator

Further research is needed

@ingrid wow this is aimed directly at my frame of reference

@philnelson Phil it haunts me

Do you have any idea how hard it is to search for "skinny guy in movie whose hair is a little too long and usually is maybe a drug dealer or a stalker but also maybe likes poetry and is sensitive???"

Is this actually a thing or did I just make up a kind of guy

@ingrid waifish guy who serves as emasculated foil to male lead yeah

dylan moran did that in "shaun of the dead"

@ingrid keiran culkin in "scott pilgrim vs the world?"

@ingrid mathew lillard, hackers (1995)

@ingrid not to massively reply here but (a) i have been nerd sniped and (b) actually ziggy falls into the "emasculated foil for the rugged men" trope with the dock workers

@zbarocas yes!! Very much in this vein. Araki also often deploys this Kind of Guy

@ingrid so everything Steve Buscemi has ever done?

@ingrid "we can't get Jeremy Davis, who have you got?"

@wilbr I think it's time constrained to youth