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Take Your Vitamins: How Gen Z Moves the Supplements Market
What is Gen Zs behavior around supplements and vitamins? How do they take them, what do they take, why do they take them (or why don't they take them), and what can health brands do to better market to Gen Z?

Renaissance 2.0; The Resurgence of Creation
Gen Z continues to break barriers and create new lanes for others to follow in making a future as creatives. We explore how many of our associates are creatives, and are choosing to make their careers in artistic fields. and the ability of Gen Z to turn the concept of starving artist on its head.

Redefining Luxury: How Can Luxury Brands Survive Gen Z?
How brands can reinvent and innovate to meet Gen Z's new definition of luxury. What makes a product feel luxury to Gen Z, and how to reach the most empathic generation yet without turning them off from arrogant or tone-deaf brand assumptions about what luxury is.

Gen Z's Opioid Crisis, and How Some Gen Zers Are Taking Their Power Back
As social media continues as the eminent opioid crisis for Gen Z, with dopamine dependency a key feature of social media use, our associates explore how Gen Z is rejecting the addiction to social media – and why they believe social media isn't sustainable in its current form.

What's 'Like Therapy' for Gen-Z in Pandemic Era
Gen Z is a generation under extreme pressure socially, economically, and personally. They are learning to cope through collaboration, exploration and inventiveness. Leaning on each other, non-traditional wellness, and activity are just a few coping mechanisms they use for an uncertain future.

Gen Z Redefining Creative Ownership through NFTS
NFTS (Non-Fungible Token) are collectible assets which hold value, just like physical art holds value – with Gen Z distrust in traditional economies, NFTs provide digital creators with renewed ownership over their work.

AstroWorld - Gen Z Cancel Culture, Tragedy, and TikTok
The temperature of cancel culture rose dramatically in the wake of AstroWorld tragedy. With the cacophony of opinions around Travis Scott, satanism, and canceling, Gen Z takes a more balanced approach to who survives the trial of public perception as the most empathic generation yet.

What Employers Can Learn from Entrepreneurialism and Gen Z
Gen Z is one of the generations leading the Great Resignation. With Gen Z is leaving the workforce in droves, the key to reaching this demographic is learning how to empower their need for autonomy and entrepreneurial pursuits. Companies can relate to this generation and their need for autonomy by maximizing Gen Zs interests instead of challenging them.

The Metaverse Economy and Gen Z

Abloh's Altar: A Gen Z Response to the Loss of Virgil Abloh
Exploring how the loss of Virgil transcends the realm of fashion and has far reaching impact. Aside from being a designer, tastemaker, & entrepreneur, he became the status symbol for black creators everywhere.

Gen Z’s Final Gender Frontier: The Manly Plate
Although Gen Z is progressive generation, a holdout to this progressive trend is men and their diets, specifically gendered meat consumption. We explore this gendering relationship to body dysmorphia among male athletes, and the impact on athletic performance.