'The Night Agent' Star Reveals Why He Deleted Social Media

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Gabriel Basso as Peter smiling while looking over his right shoulder in Season 2 of The Night Agent. Image via Netflix

Published Feb 4, 2026, 9:44 AM EST

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Gabriel Basso just gave one of the most unexpectedly deep reasons ever for quitting social media — and it all started with a picture of a mountain. The Night Agent star appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on February 3, where Jimmy Fallon asked the question fans had already been wondering: why did he suddenly delete his Instagram? Basso said the decision came in a split second while he was doom-scrolling and landed on a photo taken from the top of Mount Everest.

“I was doom-scrolling and I saw a picture from the top of Mount Everest. And I was like, ‘Wow, this is beautiful.' And then I stopped and I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ Why do I now know what that looks like? It p****d me off that that guy stepped over literal bodies to get up there to see that view, and now I was seeing it from my couch. And it bothered me that I had that image in my head now without any effort to earn that visual. And I was like, ‘Dude, screw this whole platform.’”

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