Personally, I'm not that comfortable with the speculation about someone's emotional state based on pictures (outside of fic, I mean)--because the tone of it often feels invasive and weird to me, for the reasons I stated above, whereas being happy that a picture of Brendon and Ryan exist, you know, because the photo exists and that hints that the split maybe wasn't a gaping chasm. Does that make sense? But I get that YMMV, that's the nature of RPS.