If you stopped reaching out and the friendship would just stop, you already know what it is.

You have already run that experiment in your head, which is why the question is uncomfortable. A friendship where one person does all the initiating is not fake, but it is not mutual either, and that difference grows heavier over time. Sometimes it is a rough season on their end and it balances out later. Sometimes it has simply been this way for two years.

Try easing off for a few weeks without announcing it as a test. If nothing comes back, you have information rather than a betrayal. Then decide whether you are fine being the one who reaches, because for a few people you love, you will be.