It's amazing how much an unruly beard can change a person. By the end of this GIF, James Harden doesn't just look like a guy marooned on an island by himself for years, he looks like a guy marooned on an island by himself for years.
The eyes never change, but as the beard sprawls across his face, covering his smile, you can almost see the life drain from them. In a couple of seconds regular-dude-you-might-be-friends-with James Harden morphs into a guy who saw the Worst Thing Imaginable and never recovered.