diff --git a/tools/redditcrawl.py b/tools/redditcrawl.py
index ee22378e..bd7101a2 100755
--- a/tools/redditcrawl.py
+++ b/tools/redditcrawl.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 		# Two escape it again in the regex parser, so \\\\ is \
 		# Then anything but " or n is replaced with the first capture group (anything but " or n)
 		# Test in repl: re.sub("\\\\([^\"n])", "\\1", "\\t < removed slash, t stays and > stays \\n \\\"")
-		re.sub("\\\\([^\"n])", "\\1", text)
+		text = re.sub("\\\\([^\"n])", "\\1", text)
 		try:
 			text = text.replace("\"id\": 0,", "\"id\": 0,\n\t\t\"submitted_by\": \""+submission.author.name+"\",")
 		except AttributeError: