Influencer Emilie Kiser couldn't hold back tears when reflecting on her difficult 2025. "2025 has been literally soul-crushing. There's no other way to describe it," Kiser, 26, said via TikTok on Thursday, January 1, while getting visibly emotional. "I have no words for 2025, but that's kind of why I wanted to make this video." In her first video of 2026, Kiser told her followers that it's OK to feel "very lost" as a new year begins. "I cannot even describe the emptiness that I have felt the last seven months," she said.