Touchbar displays static BUT touch STILL WORKS?

Hi all,

My touchbar DISPLAY recently stopped working, and went to static (an unmoving static, not like snow on a TV). Just this pixelated random image.

The touch function of the bar is STILL working however, and if I have the locations of the buttons memorized enough that i can still raise/lower volume, brightness, etc.

I've tried the usual fixes of restarts, SMC, even restarting the touchbar from the Terminal (assuming I did all of this correctly) with no success.

Should it be interesting, upon restarting the computer, the bar goes to black, and the static returns over a minute or two, starting with just intermittent green pixels and then the full static fades in.

My money is on a loose ribbon cable, but I really don't want to tear that far down unless I have to.

This is a 2018 Macbook Pro running Catalina.

Anyone else have this experience or ideas?

Thanks in advance!