Hey, I know you're feeling probably rather heated about this whole collectible situation at the moment, but the icons aren't gone as most of them (or maybe all?) are accessible on Google Images, someone in the thread uploaded them to Imgur and perhaps some are on other places too such as Archive.org. If you can just hide the alt text for the time being and reupload the images to dbtech/vbshop/images/items/items, everything should be good, right?
It seems the collectibles themselves are fine. Not sure to what extent your database issues go, but that alone doesn't seem to be having any impact, at least from my perspective.