Why backslash for tags?

I'm an idiot.

I wrote a 3 paragraph post about this, but it took too long, so the CMS decided to log me out and I lost the whole damn thing...

It happened before, that's why I used to write blog posts in an ordinary text editor for years -- then I stopped writing posts regularily and I forgot. VULGAR_WORD_FOR_COITUS!

Long story short, I made up another markup language based on Markdown and Ztext where I used \\ for a "keyword" feature that kind of works for "tags" too in stead of the #, and I ended with a youtube video-like "like subscribe and ring the bell" thing.

I'm not gonna rewrite the rest.