DJ Akademiks says he woke up, opened Instagram, and genuinely couldnβt 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 itβs just another day at the office. On its own, that clip is already messy.
But what made the whole thing explode wasnβt just the footageβit 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 βpatternβ 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 itβs being dragged back as the emblem of how deep this humiliation cycle really goes.
Hereβs 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 βcontentβ the night before.
The video spreads, blogs repost it, and timelines light up with clowning. People arenβt shocked sheβd post a man in bed; thatβs her brand. Theyβre shocked that man is Offsetβagain. In a world where most public figures know exactly who she is and what she does, heβs acting like he never got the memo.
Akademiks jumped in almost immediately, saying the wild part isnβt the bed shot, itβs that Offset keeps putting himself in situations where humiliation on camera is basically guaranteed. He flat-out said this doesnβt 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. Offsetβs team pushed back. The story was denied and disputed, but it was never fully scrubbed.
That numberβ$50,000βended 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 peopleβs heads.
First $50,000 to erase a pregnancy, now a fresh clip where heβs laid out, completely vulnerable, in the bed of a woman who thrives on exposure. Fans donβt see that as a coincidence. They see it as Offset stepping right back into the same minefield he supposedly already paid to escape.
Akademiksβ reaction made the whole situation even more pointed. He reminded viewers that if thereβs one person in the industry who should want to stay a thousand miles away from Celina Powell, itβs Offset.
Sheβs not some unknown. Her resume is public. Sheβs exposed and embarrassed multiple celebrities, from Akon to Lil Meech, and sheβs literally rated men sheβs been with on camera, turning private intimacy into punchlines. Sheβs admitted to saving people in her phone under wild names, making them walking jokes the second she gets mad or bored.
Thatβs what she does. So when Offset ends up as the star of her content again, people donβt see a man who got caught slipping; they see a man who walked willingly into a house where the cameras are always rolling.
Thatβs where the βhumiliation kinkβ discourse comes in, and itβs 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 someoneβs 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 donβt care if youβre humiliatedβor some part of you is drawn to that chaos. In other words, if youβve allegedly dropped $50,000 once to make a problem disappear and youβre right back in the same orbit, people are going to start asking what you actually get out of it.
Akademiks didnβt just talk about humiliation though. He hinted Offset might be spiraling in a broader way. He mentioned gambling, calling Offset a βdegenerate gamblerβ in need of possible rehab, and suggested that this kind of addiction can make you forget who you are and what youβre risking.
The idea is that when youβre chasing a rush constantlyβat the tables, online, in lifeβyou start treating everything like a bet, even your own reputation. Being in Celina Powellβs 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 sheβs doing. She never posts just to post. Every caption is bait. The bed video wasnβt just βlook at who Iβm with.β It was a teaser, a suggestion that thereβs more footage, more content, more leverage sitting in her phone.
Thatβs how she operates: a little clip here, a little implication there, enough to make the audience assume thereβs 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 doesnβt know, but theyβve seen her playbook enough times to assume nothing is off the table.
What makes this more serious than a random βgot caught in bedβ 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.
Youβve 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 canβt stop choosing the most self-destructive option in the roomβor refuses to.
Akademiks sounded less like a troll and more like someone sounding an alarm. Heβs been burned by Celina himself. Sheβs 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 doesnβt 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 sheβs bored.
Right now, Offset hasnβt publicly addressed the new clip or the revived abortion allegations. Celina hasnβt fully unpacked her side either; sheβs just doing what she always doesβposting just enough to keep people looking. But one thing is clear: the internet is no longer treating this like a one-off mess.
Theyβre 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 βjust the internet,β the harder itβs going to be for him to convince anyone that heβs in control of anythingβleast of all his own image.
