You swallowed their gaslight narrative hook line and sinker. Good job! 
Yeah it's not the corrupt admins fault for being corrupt, it's the community's fault for "making" him corrupt. 
To be honest, I think their attempts to shift the blame to the players is actually crazier than the corruption itself.
The funniest thing is that even with this gaslighting, damage control attempt by the staff to frame Oathkeeper as the "victim" and the community as the "offenders", he STILL stabbed his Staff in the back and deleted the entire server out of spite when they intended to continue running it without him. 
I will say I have my own personal opinions on the matter irrespective of that announcement from yesterday.
Well, pretty much all of my feelings on the situation I already posted in the announcement today. I felt like I was stabbed in the back once already, but now it's twice within 30 hours from each other.
I'm still holding completely judgment until I get an explanation from him, if I ever get one, though eternal silence can be considered an answer too. Either way, I'm hurting.
To all of the players, thank you for joining the server that I helped to build. I'm sorry it ended like this. I would have kept it going. I was ready to keep it going and to help Dastgir transition despite my building health issues. Unfortunately the thing I helped build was ripped from me, without my opinion, my desires and wishes being considered, and without consideration from the 4,750 people we had on the Discord server. It was an extremely selfish act by him. I'm so sorry there was nothing I can do to prevent this. I poured every single day for the past 14 months of the server, barring some days like when I was hit by a hurricane, or the day my grandfather died, or the pain from my health was just too much to even operate. I did it all for free because I wanted it to be the best experience it possibly could be and to show my love for the game. I know I wasn't perfect, but I genuinely tried my best to be as fair and transparent with everyone. I'm sorry it was all ripped away from everyone in such a sordid act and that I cannot share the labour we worked on out of passion with people any longer.
Building a genuinely good server is not something you can do alone. It's a team effort that requires patience and pacing yourself. I wish Oathkeeper could have seen that sooner and stepped back more instead of trying to burden it all until it drove him to be hospitalized from stress and then burn everything to the ground. That kind of burnout wasn't due to any drama in the server. It was happening regardless of that. The drama didn't help of course, but it wasn't the main problem. He is ultimately the one that controls how much workload he manages and I would have just preferred that he just closed the server instead of burning every single thing; the server, all the work and I suppose, now my friendship with him. Even if I hear him out and forgave him, it don't believe it will be the same.
I'm not trying to defend his actions, I'm just trying to say that him stepping down was justified and expected 
But yeah the way things were handled were inexcusable, especially him backing out of the ownership transfer last second and nuking everything...
Well I'm an outsider and this is the way that I see things from the little pieces of information that I've been fed, I could and most likely am wrong about a lot of things please don't kill me

The owner/my friend decided to create a scandal as an excuse to rage quit the server, us staff found out after other people tipped us off and we investigated. He couldn't erase the logs, we found out, he came clean that he created a super uber wizard to create drama with. Stepped down from the server, transferred ownership along with promises to transfer other things, decided to do scorched earth by burning everything to the ground anyways about 16ish hours later. Only thing that could be salvaged was some custom code and maps. Host server is gone. Back-up server is gone. Test server is gone. RMS listing is gone. Website is gone. Control panel is gone. All data is gone. Server is gone.