PayPal co-founder and Gawker nemesis Peter Thiel isn’t the only one eyeing the final remains of Nick Denton’s gossipy, sometimes groundbreaking media empire. Mike Cernovich, the right-wing lifestyle guru and self-proclaimed journalist, is offering $500,000 in cash for Gawker’s assets, according to a copy of the offer letter obtained by the Hive.

“For the past eighteen months I have assembled a video and audio crew who are talented at creating viral content,” Cernovich writes in the letter, addressed to Gawker bankruptcy plan administrator William Holden. “I also work with a network of independent journalists. Since Gawker has brand recognition, a blog with a high page rank, and two large social media accounts, my team will be able to leverage these properties to continue my journalistic work.” The letter, which was confirmed by Ropes & Gray, the law firm representing Gawker in its bankruptcy proceedings, is dated January 9—the day after a failed Kickstarter by ex-Gawker employees had ended, and the same day that Steve Bannon, another far-right media figure, left the board of Breitbart. It seeks ownership of Gawker’s domain names and 200,000-odd archived articles.

The offer letter links to a password-protected slide deck that describes his media company. “We follow the precept that, ‘Conflict is attention,‘ and seek to break stories that involve high human drama,” reads one slide outlining Cernovich Media’s strategy. The 18-page presentation spotlights Cernovich’s 2015 self-published book, Gorilla Mindset, a self-help book for men hoping to become “alpha males.” It also boasts about the size of Cernovich’s social-media following, which includes an audience of some 400,000 on Twitter and Facebook. Four of the 18 pages are the same title card with the CernoMedia logo.

Taking over Gawker would be a coup for Cernovich, who, like Thiel, has long criticized the site. On January 10, the day after he secretly submitted his bid for Gawker’s assets, Cernovich gloated online that “Gawker bloggers couldn’t raise more than my crowd fund for a film, that’s why they hate me . . . they are nobody losers.” In his offer, Cernovich claims that he will finance the deal himself, though he reserves the right to accept financing from other parties. (Reached for comment, Cernovich would not confirm the bid, but said that raising $500,000 would be easy given his past successes on Kickstarter.)

Denton’s flagship Gawker property has been in limbo since declaring bankruptcy, following a 2016 court decision that awarded former wrestler Hulk Hogan a stunning $140 million judgment against the site in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit bankrolled by Thiel. While Gawker’s sister sites were sold to Univision for $135 million in August 2016, the company’s bankruptcy plan administrator has failed to find a buyer for Gawker.com. Holden and Gawker’s bankruptcy attorney, Gregg Galardi, have attempted to block Thiel’s bid; Galardi did not immediately respond when asked whether he would accept a bid from Cernovich. The site has attracted other suitors, as well; Reuters reported that Kevin Lee, the executive chairman and co-founder of marketing firm Didit, has made a bid for the site, and plans to use it to “raise money for readers’ preferred charities” if he is successful. Holden plans to choose a winner for the auction this month.

Cernovich’s offer comes as he attempts to navigate away from the fringes of the Internet, where he initially developed a cult following on the far right, in a bid for more mainstream respectability. Last year, he was involved in breaking major news about the National Security Council and sexual harassment in Congress, though he has by no means given up the conspiracy theories, dirty dealings, and aggressive trolling on which he made his name. Purchasing Gawker may fall into the latter category, considering his historic feud with the site, which dates back to at least 2014, when he challenged then-Gawker writer Sam Biddle to a boxing match over his coverage of Gamergate.

Cernovich himself continues to tweet about Gawker’s demise, and told the Hive his feelings haven’t changed. “Gawker started out speaking the truth to power and then it became about bullying anyone who didn’t conform to their social justice orthodoxy,” he said. “They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.”