Ignored by old friend after asking to hang out

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This friend I’ve known since my early university days wished me happy New Year’s after a while of us being distant. It’s been close to two years now since we last met up in person. He expressed interest this New Year’s on Facebook about wanting to meet up again, and I agreed.

So, earlier this month I found out about a nearby anime convention that really interested me so I purchased two tickets - one for me and one for my boyfriend. Close to a week ago, my boyfriend said that I should take a friend to the convention. I realized that I shouldn’t have bought the extra ticket before asking him if he actually wanted to go. He suggested I ask my old uni friend to go with me. I decided I might as well ask him, since I knew that old uni friend likes anime conventions as well.

I messaged uni friend on Facebook this past Sunday, making small talk first and then asking if he’d be interested in going to the con with me (which is this coming weekend). I also said that I completely understand if you can’t make it, since it’s pretty short notice. After I said all of this, he just stopped responding. It’s now Wednesday and I still haven’t got a response back from him. He updated his profile picture today, so I’m very confused as to why he’s leaving me on read.

I’m just so confused. I was really looking forward to going to this new convention with someone, but it seems I’ll just have to sell the extra ticket and go alone I do have one other person I could ask, but I’d rather not since last time I was at a con with them, they were pretty cold toward me. To make things worse, I’ve been battling depression lately and this has just been another setback.

Sorry to hear. Why not check with the other friend just to see if they want to go and if not just sell on any spare tickets?
Be practical. And just then enjoy the event regardless of what other people think or feel. Events like this should be fun so enjoy!

Im sorry to hear that, i've went through this countless times too. Tbh i don't think people care much about friendships after a certain age.