diff --git a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
index a8f39d7..6ad5b8e 100755
--- a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
+++ b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
@@ -44,11 +44,12 @@ def _week_similarities(week, simfunc, tfidf_path, term_colname, included_subredd
                          week=week,
                          rescale_idf=False)
     
+    tfidf_colname='tf_idf'
     if term_ids is not None:
         entries = duckdb.sql(f"SELECT A.{tfidf_colname}, B.{term_id} AS {term_id_new}, A.subreddit_id_new FROM entries AS A JOIN term_ids AS B ON A.{term_id_new} == B.{term_id_old}").df()
         
 
-    tfidf_colname='tf_idf'
+
     # if the max subreddit id we found is less than the number of subreddit names then we have to fill in 0s
     shape = (nterms,subreddit_names.shape[0])
     print(shape)