DJ Akademiks says he woke up, opened Instagram, and genuinely couldnât believe what he was looking at: a fresh video of Offset knocked out in bed while Celina Powell films him, clowns him, and pushes it to the internet like itâs just another day at the office. On its own, that clip is already messy.
But what made the whole thing explode wasnât just the footageâit was the context. This is the same woman who has spent years claiming Offset offered her $50,000 to end a pregnancy, the same woman who built a whole name off exposing men. So when Akademiks called this a âpatternâ and hinted that Offset might be chasing some twisted humiliation loop instead of avoiding it, fans locked in on that key number: $50,000.
First it sounded like just a price tag from an old scandal. Then it started to feel like a recurring symbol of how Offset handles damage control. And now itâs being dragged back as the emblem of how deep this humiliation cycle really goes.
Hereâs what we actually saw this time. Celina Powell posts Offset asleep in bed, snoring, while she films him and flips him off, with a caption hinting that they had just made âcontentâ the night before.
The video spreads, blogs repost it, and timelines light up with clowning. People arenât shocked sheâd post a man in bed; thatâs her brand. Theyâre shocked that man is Offsetâagain. In a world where most public figures know exactly who she is and what she does, heâs acting like he never got the memo.
Akademiks jumped in almost immediately, saying the wild part isnât the bed shot, itâs that Offset keeps putting himself in situations where humiliation on camera is basically guaranteed. He flat-out said this doesnât look like bad luck; it looks like a pattern. And the fact that this is happening nearly eight years after their first internet blowup is why that $50,000 story came right back to the surface.
Back when Offset was still in the early Cardi B era, Celina Powell went public with a claim that she was pregnant by him and that he offered her $50,000 to terminate the pregnancy. Cardi pushed back. Offsetâs team pushed back. The story was denied and disputed, but it was never fully scrubbed.
That numberâ$50,000âended up floating around blogs and headlines as shorthand for how Offset allegedly handles problems: pay them away, make them vanish, and hope the internet forgets. Years later, the internet did not forget. So the second Celina posted him again, that figure clicked right back into peopleâs heads.
First $50,000 to erase a pregnancy, now a fresh clip where heâs laid out, completely vulnerable, in the bed of a woman who thrives on exposure. Fans donât see that as a coincidence. They see it as Offset stepping right back into the same minefield he supposedly already paid to escape.
Akademiksâ reaction made the whole situation even more pointed. He reminded viewers that if thereâs one person in the industry who should want to stay a thousand miles away from Celina Powell, itâs Offset.
Sheâs not some unknown. Her resume is public. Sheâs exposed and embarrassed multiple celebrities, from Akon to Lil Meech, and sheâs literally rated men sheâs been with on camera, turning private intimacy into punchlines. Sheâs admitted to saving people in her phone under wild names, making them walking jokes the second she gets mad or bored.
Thatâs what she does. So when Offset ends up as the star of her content again, people donât see a man who got caught slipping; they see a man who walked willingly into a house where the cameras are always rolling.
Thatâs where the âhumiliation kinkâ discourse comes in, and itâs important to frame this carefully. Nobody can prove what a person actually likes behind closed doors. What fans are reacting to is the behavior: a famous artist repeatedly engaging with someone who has a proven history of exposing him, and then acting like the exposure is some surprise.
When you know someoneâs entire brand is public embarrassment and you still fall asleep in their bed, on camera, with them holding the phone, it looks less like misfortune and more like you either donât care if youâre humiliatedâor some part of you is drawn to that chaos. In other words, if youâve allegedly dropped $50,000 once to make a problem disappear and youâre right back in the same orbit, people are going to start asking what you actually get out of it.
Akademiks didnât just talk about humiliation though. He hinted Offset might be spiraling in a broader way. He mentioned gambling, calling Offset a âdegenerate gamblerâ in need of possible rehab, and suggested that this kind of addiction can make you forget who you are and what youâre risking.
The idea is that when youâre chasing a rush constantlyâat the tables, online, in lifeâyou start treating everything like a bet, even your own reputation. Being in Celina Powellâs bed then becomes just another high-risk move in a long streak of reckless decisions.
And the $50,000 detail fits right into that worldview: throw money at a crisis, roll the dice that no one brings it back up, move on like nothing happened. Only now, the bill for all those old bets is coming due in public.
Celina, for her part, knows exactly what sheâs doing. She never posts just to post. Every caption is bait. The bed video wasnât just âlook at who Iâm with.â It was a teaser, a suggestion that thereâs more footage, more content, more leverage sitting in her phone.
Thatâs how she operates: a little clip here, a little implication there, enough to make the audience assume thereâs a tape, a message, a screenshot. And the $50,000 story gives all of that a darker edge. If she already once claimed he tried to pay to erase a pregnancy, what happens if she now has fresh material?
Does she hold it for a higher price? Use it for attention? Drop it when he stops answering? The internet doesnât know, but theyâve seen her playbook enough times to assume nothing is off the table.
What makes this more serious than a random âgot caught in bedâ leak is that it smashes together three things at once: public embarrassment, a documented history of messy drama with the same woman, and an old allegation involving money and a terminated pregnancy.
Youâve got a man who once allegedly tried to make a problem go away for $50,000 suddenly resurfacing on the phone of the same woman, in the same kind of compromising situation, with a much bigger spotlight on him and much less goodwill from the public.
The deeper it goes, the more it stops looking like a string of random mistakes and starts looking like a man who either canât stop choosing the most self-destructive option in the roomâor refuses to.
Akademiks sounded less like a troll and more like someone sounding an alarm. Heâs been burned by Celina himself. Sheâs exposed him, mocked him, and even showed how she stored his name in her phone in a way designed to degrade him.
So when he says Offset is moving reckless and needs to get help, it doesnât come off as jealousy or random commentary. It sounds like a warning from someone who knows exactly what it feels like when Celina Powell has receipts and decides sheâs bored.
Right now, Offset hasnât publicly addressed the new clip or the revived abortion allegations. Celina hasnât fully unpacked her side either; sheâs just doing what she always doesâposting just enough to keep people looking. But one thing is clear: the internet is no longer treating this like a one-off mess.
Theyâre treating that $50,000 number as the anchor to a long-running pattern, a symbol of a man who keeps trying to buy his way out of humiliating situations while still walking right back into them. And the longer he pretends this is âjust the internet,â the harder itâs going to be for him to convince anyone that heâs in control of anythingâleast of all his own image.