Central Time from Austin: the hours your fans keep
Austin keeps Central Time; in the IANA time zone database that is the America/Chicago entry. For 2026, NIST dates U.S. daylight saving time from March 8 to November 1. Britain and the EU move their clocks on March's and October's last Sundays, which GOV.UK translates into March 29 and October 25 for 2026 and Directive 2000/84/EC fixes for all EU members. Mexico City never moves: the Ley de los Husos Horarios (in Spanish, in force from October 30, 2022) restricts seasonal time to the northern border strip, leaving the capital at UTC−6 all year.
The hour in Austin at a fan's 9:00 p.m. (IANA tz database, release 2026b)
| The fan is in… | Most of the year (Jan. 1 to Mar. 7, Mar. 29 to Oct. 24, and from Nov. 1, 2026) | Mar. 8 to 28 and Oct. 25 to 31, 2026 |
| New York or Miami, Eastern Time | 8:00 p.m. in Austin | 8:00 p.m. in Austin |
| Denver, Mountain Time | 10:00 p.m. in Austin | 10:00 p.m. in Austin |
| London | 3:00 p.m. in Austin | 4:00 p.m. in Austin |
| Rome or Berlin | 2:00 p.m. in Austin | 3:00 p.m. in Austin |
The last column covers the weeks when the U.S. has already changed its clocks and Europe hasn't, or the other way round; Eastern and Mountain Time move on the same dates as Austin, so their rows never change.
Mexico City, our base, isn't in the table because it needs only one line: 9:00 p.m. there is 9:00 p.m. in Austin from November 1, 2026 to March 13, 2027, and 10:00 p.m. in Austin the rest of the year, since Texas springs forward and the capital doesn't. Reverse the table to plan a post: a mass message that leaves Austin at 8:00 p.m. reaches New York at 9:00 p.m., Denver at 7:00 p.m., and London or Berlin at 1:00 to 3:00 a.m., which is why your afternoon is the right slot for European fans. The chat is staffed around the clock, so these gaps decide when things get scheduled, not whether a fan is answered. One habit worth keeping: in the second week of March and the last week of October, re-check anything queued in advance. Ask us about the shifts if you want the detail.
Austin in Census figures: a metro that added 53,796 people in one year
According to the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates, the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metropolitan area had 2,620,945 residents on July 1, 2025, 53,796 more than a year earlier. The area covers five counties: Travis (1,389,670 people), Williamson (752,827), Hays (304,390), Bastrop (118,908) and Caldwell (55,150). Of that year's growth, 37,317 people came from net migration, split almost evenly between 19,860 who moved in from elsewhere in the country and 17,457 who arrived from abroad. The Bureau's characteristics file, published in June 2026, counts 878,152 Hispanic or Latino residents in the metro, 33.5% of the total.
Zoom in to the city limits and QuickFacts shows 1,002,632 residents on the same date, against 961,855 in the 2020 census; 31.9% of them are Hispanic or Latino, and 30.3% of residents aged five or older speak a language that isn't English at home (American Community Survey, 2020–2024). Travis County as a whole sits at 33.9% and 30.0% on those two measures.
None of this tells you who subscribes to your page: fans come from everywhere, and the Census counts neighbors, not buyers. What it does suggest is that a bilingual inbox is a sensible default in this part of Texas, and that happens to be what we do without extra effort:
- Spanish is the language our company runs on. From Mexico City, a reply in Spanish is not a special request; it's how the day already sounds. English is handled by the same shifts, so one team covers both.
- The fan picks the language, not us. A message in English gets English back; one in Spanish gets Spanish; a mix gets a mix.
- Your limits don't change with the language. Whatever you won't do goes into the contract, and a chatter who pushes you toward it hands you a reason to terminate.
Filming in Austin: no blanket permit, several specific ones
If you shoot social-media clips outdoors, the City of Austin says it "does not require a universal film permit," but specific permits may be needed when a production uses the right-of-way, a City park, the airport or certain other locations. The city's own pages spell out the main case:
- Streets, sidewalks, alleys and parking lanes. A right-of-way permit is required for all film-making activity there, and the city explicitly includes b-roll footage, still photography, commercial and student filming, and anything that blocks or reroutes traffic. The same application is used to reserve public parking spaces for a shoot on private property.
- How and when. The Office of Special Events of Transportation and Public Works processes the application online, with a site plan, Austin Police Department approval and a certificate of insurance; a notarized record of notifications to the properties fronting the street is also required, except for mobile filming. Minimum lead times: 5 business days for the police application, 3 for a commercial or mobile film permit, 2 for a student permit. Fees change each fiscal year; the city notes that the film application fee doesn't apply to student or b-roll filming, while parking permit fees (application and usage) can apply when public parking spaces are reserved. The page points to City Code § 14-6-4, "Temporary Street Closure for Film-Making Activity," as the governing ordinance.
- Insurance. The city's film contacts page asks for commercial general liability insurance of at least $500,000 per occurrence on most City property, with the City of Austin as additional insured, a waiver of subrogation and 30 days' notice of cancellation, plus $500,000 of auto liability if vehicles are used.
- Parks, the Capitol, transit. City parks are permitted separately by the Parks and Recreation Department's Office of Special Events; the Texas State Capitol complex and CapMetro property need their own approvals, listed by the city as additional items when applicable.
The Austin Film Commission, part of Visit Austin, is the local film commission and, as its permits page states, it does not issue permits. That page adds that permits are generally not required on private property unless pyrotechnics, weapons or stunts are involved, recommends asking for a park permit 7 days ahead (14 for large productions), and repeats the $500,000 insurance minimum for most City property. Permits settle where you can film, not what you can show: public lewdness and indecent exposure (Penal Code §§ 21.07 and 21.08) still apply, so anything explicit stays indoors. We don't organize shoots; this is information for the content you produce yourself.
Austin fan spending: what OnlyGuider estimates, edition by edition
OnlyFans doesn't publish how much any city spends. The numbers that circulate are OnlyGuider's, an OnlyFans search engine that models spending from Google search data and from the financial statements filed by Fenix International, the platform's owner. They are estimates, and the two editions don't agree with each other:
Austin in OnlyGuider's estimates (both pages read on October 21 and 22, 2026)
| Edition | Total spending | Spending per capita |
| OnlyFans Wrapped 2025 (its authors now label it "superseded"; page dated May 11, 2026); calendar-year 2025, 100 cities | #29 worldwide, about $17.54 million, 0.87% above 2024 | #17 worldwide: $179,230.56 per 10,000 residents |
| OnlyFans Wrapped 2026 (page dated August 31, 2026); forecast for December 2025–November 2026, 98 cities | #15 worldwide, about $31.08 million, 0.9% above a recalculated 2025 figure of $30.79 million | #12 worldwide: $404,653 per 10,000 adults |
Read the jump from $17.5 to $31 million as a change of method, not of behavior: OnlyGuider says its earlier approach "tied spending too tightly to search," and the 2026 edition starts from Fenix's accounts and forecasts with a time-series model. The per-capita columns aren't comparable either, since 2025 divides by all residents and 2026 by adults only. What holds across both is that Austin sits in the top 20 of the cities OnlyGuider measures for spending intensity, and in the 2026 edition in the top 15 for total spending. Two reminders: these figures locate fans, not creators, and your subscribers can be anywhere; and no estimate about a city is a forecast of what your page will earn.
Texas law if your content leaks or someone fakes you
Below is a plain-English summary of the statutes as they read today. It is general information, not legal advice; a lawyer licensed in Texas is the person to ask about your situation.
- Intimate images shared without consent: Penal Code § 21.16. A state jail felony is committed by whoever discloses visual material of a person's intimate parts or sexual conduct when four conditions meet: no effective consent from her, and an intent to harm her; knowledge, or reason to believe, that the material came from a setting where she had a reasonable expectation of privacy; harm that followed; and the disclosure revealed her identity, directly or through information added afterwards. The statute says in so many words that her having produced the material, consented to its creation or transmitted it voluntarily is no defense. It also carries affirmative defenses, including one for material depicting only an exposure that was voluntary and took place in what the statute calls a "public or commercial setting"; how that applies to paid content reposted for free is for a lawyer to answer, and it's one reason our leak response rests on copyright notices rather than on this section.
- Deepfakes of a sexual nature: Penal Code § 21.165. Its definition of "deep fake media" is a visual depiction, created or altered with software or AI, that a reasonable person would take for an authentic recording of a real person doing something that never happened. Knowingly producing it, or distributing it electronically, so that it shows someone whose intimate parts are computer-generated or borrowed from another person, or who takes part in sexual conduct that never occurred, all without her effective consent: a Class A misdemeanor, raised to a third-degree felony for a repeat offender or when the person shown is under 18. Threatening to produce or spread such media to coerce, extort, harass or intimidate is punishable too. Since S.B. 441 took effect on September 1, 2025, three rules stand out: consent counts only when given as a written agreement in plain language, signed knowingly and voluntarily, that describes the media in general terms and, where relevant, the production it goes into; a disclaimer or a "not authentic" label excuses nobody; and the court must order the convicted defendant to compensate the victim for harm that is psychological, financial or reputational.
Takedown clocks: one state, one federal
| Rule | Applies to | Clock |
| Texas: § 98B.0022, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (S.B. 441, in force since September 1, 2025) | Any artificial intimate visual material hosted on any website or app, social networks included, once the person shown requests removal | 72 hours, together with a reasonable effort to find and delete known identical copies; the owner who misses it answers to her for damages |
| Federal: Pub. L. 119-12, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed May 19, 2025 | Nonconsensual intimate visual depictions on covered platforms; the law counts AI "digital forgeries" as intimate depictions | 48 hours once a valid request arrives; platforms were given one year, until May 19, 2026, to build the notice-and-removal process |
Whether either rule is worth invoking, and how, is something you settle with your lawyer, licensed in Texas; what we do is the legwork, locating copies and sending the notices ourselves.
AI and your likeness: what Texas requires, and what we require
Our rule reads: AI images or voice of you only with your separate, signed written consent, describing what will be generated and where it will be used. The reason the consent has to be that specific sits in two Texas statutes:
- § 21.165(b-2) of the Penal Code. For sexual deepfake media, consent exists only on paper: a plain-language agreement, signed knowingly and voluntarily, that describes the media in general terms and, where it applies, the production it will be inserted into.
- Business & Commerce Code § 503.001. The section counts a voiceprint and a record of face geometry as "biometric identifiers." Before one is captured for a commercial purpose, the person has to be informed and has to consent; afterwards it must be safeguarded with reasonable care and deleted within a reasonable time, and no later than a year after the collection purpose ends. Each violation exposes the holder to a civil penalty of up to $25,000, which the attorney general can sue to collect. Since H.B. 149 took effect on January 1, 2026, biometric data used to train or run AI systems that don't single out individuals is exempt, but the rules and penalties return should that data later serve a different commercial purpose.
Ask a lawyer licensed in Texas to read any such consent form, ours included, against both sections before you sign.
Staying unrecognized in a city of a million
Austin is small enough for coincidences. Four precautions go further than any promise:
- Geo-blocking, within its limits. Blocking by country is standard on OnlyFans, and blocking by U.S. state exists where OnlyFans offers it; we check the actual options inside your settings. Remember that a block also shuts out the paying fans of that area, and that a VPN defeats it.
- Backgrounds talk. A Capitol dome through the window, a CapMetro stop sign, a recognizable stretch of Lady Bird Lake or the mural outside your building can narrow your address down to a handful of streets. Check every clip before it goes up, including on the social profiles that drive traffic to your page.
- A chat that gives nothing away. The contract bars chatters from revealing, or hinting at, your real name, neighborhood, schedule or relatives.
- Leaks handled, not ignored. We look for copies of your material, reposts without your name included, and write each DMCA notice by hand.
Money: OnlyFans pays you, and you pay us from a U.S. account
Three clauses of OnlyFans' Terms of Service matter here: the platform's fee is 20% of each fan payment and is deducted at source; every fan payment and creator payout is transacted in U.S. dollars; and a withdrawal is possible once your balance reaches the minimum payout amount. Which payout methods appear depends on the options OnlyFans' Banking section shows for the United States; we go through them together.
Your earnings land in an account that is yours alone. We never hold them, and the contract says so. No later than 5 business days after the monthly cut-off you get the commission statement, and every week a brief update on the account. You then pay our share in dollars, by ACH or wire from a U.S. bank account in your name, to Panther Management Group's account at ARQ (formerly DolarApp), and the statement itself carries the account details, which we keep off this page. Only money OnlyFans has actually released to you counts; anything still on hold is counted in the month it clears.
- Monthly net below $1,000: 30%.
- From $1,000 through $2,999.99: 25%.
- From $3,000 upward: 20%; whichever tier the month lands in covers the whole month.
Five months, worked through; the third and fourth sit on either side of the $3,000 line:
| Gross fan spending | Net once the platform's 20% is out | Our share | You keep |
| $1,100 | $880 | 30% = $264 | $616 |
| $2,500 | $2,000 | 25% = $500 | $1,500 |
| $3,700 | $2,960 | 25% = $740 | $2,220 |
| $3,800 | $3,040 | 20% = $608 | $2,432 |
| $8,000 | $6,400 | 20% = $1,280 | $5,120 |
One hundred dollars more in fan spending, between the third and fourth rows, leaves you $212 better off, because the whole month moves to the 20% tier once net reaches $3,000. To test your own numbers, use our commission calculator, which is written in Spanish but does the same arithmetic.
Worked examples only: none of these rows predicts your income.
Taxes seen from Austin: Texas first, then the IRS (data, not advice)
- Texas has no personal income tax. Article 8, Section 24-a of the Texas Constitution, headed "Individual income tax prohibited," says the legislature may not tax the net incomes of individuals, a person's share of partnership or unincorporated-association income included.
- Federal: Schedule C. Schedule C (Form 1040) is, in the IRS's words, for reporting income or loss from a business or profession you ran as a sole proprietor.
- Federal: self-employment tax. The IRS puts it at 15.3%, of which 12.4 points go to Social Security and 2.9 to Medicare. It becomes due, with Schedule SE to file, once net earnings from self-employment hit $400.
Whether those forms fit your case, and how to document payments to a company in Mexico, belong with a CPA licensed in Texas. We don't prepare returns or give tax advice; if an accountant would help, we know some and can make the introduction. Our side of the paperwork is the monthly commission statement, and our tax ID in Mexico, RFC PMG2608209C5, can be checked against the SAT registry by anyone.