Hollywood's male beauty standards have changed throughout the years. The Golden Age of the industry presented rugged masculinity with Humphrey Bogart and Kirk Douglas, while the 1980s gave us hyper-masculine macho men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone . And, of course, 1990s presented more boy-next-door-type men like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise .
Tastes just keep on changing in regard to what audiences like. And, now, the Internet is getting in on the "sex rat boyfriend" trend, which includes Timothèe Chalamet, Barry Keoghan and more stars. This trend has apparently been seeing quite an uptick as of late.
To put it simply, the “hot rodent man” or the “sexy rat boyfriend” trend describes slim men, according to the magazine Dazed . These are individuals who aren't considered “conventionally handsome,” but that quality only makes them even more attractive to the masses. In one tweet , a fan explained why the star of Saltburn was their choice of Internet boyfriend amid this trend: Sorry to those I mocked all it took for me to fancy Barry Keoghan was for him to be winking in the presence of Sabrina Carpenter and have his arms slightly on show.
Officially now locked in for rat boy summer. That sentiment is in reference to watching Barry Keoghan getting handcuffed by his real-life girlfriend, Sabrina Carpenter, in her music video for “Please Please Please.” We see Keoghan’s bad boy side come out when he’s smashing faces and robbing banks in the vid.