Dallas–Fort Worth by the numbers, and why your inbox needs Spanish
On July 1, 2025, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area had 8,477,157 residents spread over 11 counties, according to Vintage 2025 population estimates from the Census Bureau; that is 123,557 more people than a year earlier. The Bureau's estimates by characteristics, published in June 2026, classify 2,618,634 of them, 30.9%, as Hispanic or Latino. Inside the city limits, Dallas counted 1,329,491 people on that same date, and the city's QuickFacts profile shows 41.2% of residents five and older speaking something other than English at home (ACS, 2020–2024).
Census numbers count residents, not subscribers. Their lesson for your inbox is narrower: a fan who opens with "hola, guapa" and receives an answer that reads like a translation app can easily go quiet. That's where our base becomes an advantage:
- Spanish is our everyday language. Empire operates from Mexico City, so Spanish comes as standard, not as an extra; the same operation covers English, Spanish and everything in between.
- Whatever the fan writes, we match. Spanish gets Spanish, English gets English, and Spanglish gets Spanglish.
- One set of limits in every language. Your list of things you don't do is written in your contract and applies to us whatever the language; asking you for anything on it gives you grounds to terminate.
What Dallas fans spend on OnlyFans: one estimate, two editions
OnlyFans keeps city-level spending to itself. The figures quoted online come from OnlyGuider, an OnlyFans search site, which models them from Google search volumes and the published accounts of Fenix International, the company behind OnlyFans. Treat them as estimates, and note that the two editions disagree:
Dallas in the OnlyGuider estimates (pages read on October 16, 2026)
| Edition | What it measures | Dallas |
|---|
| OnlyFans Wrapped 2025 (updated May 11, 2026; its authors now flag it as "superseded") | Total 2025 spending across 100 cities | #15, roughly $26.17 million, 1.28% below 2024 |
| OnlyFans Wrapped 2026 (updated Aug. 31, 2026) | Projection covering December 2025 to November 2026, 98 cities | #9, roughly $41.19 million; its 2025 figure revised to $40.63 million |
Because the methods differ, going from 26 to 41 million reflects a new calculation rather than growth; OnlyGuider says its older edition "tied spending too tightly to search." Both editions do place Dallas inside the top 15 of the cities they track worldwide. Two caveats: the figures show where fans spend, not where your subscribers are, since a page in Dallas sells to fans anywhere; and no figure here is a forecast of your income.
Getting paid from Dallas: OnlyFans pays you, you pay us
OnlyFans' Terms of Service set its fee at 20% of every fan payment, say that everything is paid and earned in U.S. dollars, and allow a withdrawal once your balance clears the minimum payout. Which payout methods you see depends on what the Banking section offers for your country; we review them with you.
Payouts go to an account held only in your name, and we never hold or receive them. No more than 5 business days after each month's cut-off, you receive the commission statement, and a weekly report on how the account is doing. The commission is then paid 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); the statement includes the account details. We count only earnings OnlyFans has made available to you; funds still on hold count in the cut-off in which they're freed.
- Under $1,000 of net in the month: 30%.
- Between $1,000 and $2,999.99: 25%.
- $3,000 or more, starting at exactly $3,000: 20%.
Whichever tier the month reaches covers all of that month's net. Five cases, two of them straddling the $3,000 mark:
| Fans spend | Left after OnlyFans' 20% | Our commission | Yours |
|---|
| $900 | $720 | 30% = $216 | $504 |
| $2,000 | $1,600 | 25% = $400 | $1,200 |
| $3,740 | $2,992 | 25% = $748 | $2,244 |
| $3,760 | $3,008 | 20% = $601.60 | $2,406.40 |
| $6,250 | $5,000 | 20% = $1,000 | $4,000 |
Compare the third and fourth rows: twenty more dollars of fan spending leave you $162.40 richer, because crossing $3,000 drops the whole month to 20%. For other amounts, try our commission calculator; it's in Spanish, and the arithmetic doesn't change.
These figures illustrate the math; they don't predict what you'll earn.
Taxes: the Texas part and the federal forms (data, not advice)
- No state tax on individual income. Under Article 8, Section 24-a of the Texas Constitution, titled "Individual income tax prohibited," the legislature can't tax individuals' net incomes, and that includes a person's share of income from a partnership or unincorporated association.
- Schedule C. The IRS's Schedule C (Form 1040) page says it is used to report the income or loss of a business you operated, or a profession you practiced, as a sole proprietor.
- Schedule SE. Per the IRS, self-employment tax comes to 15.3% in total, split into 12.4% for Social Security and 2.9% for Medicare. If net self-employment earnings reach $400, you owe it and file Schedule SE.
Whether those forms fit you, and how to document what you pay a Mexican company, are questions for a CPA licensed in Texas. Tax returns and tax advice are outside what we do; should you need an accountant, we can introduce you to one. What you will always have from us is the record: a commission statement after each monthly cut-off. Anyone can verify our RFC, Mexico's tax ID, PMG2608209C5, with SAT, the Mexican tax administration.
Central Time: when your fans are awake
Dallas keeps Central Time, which the IANA time zone database files under America/Chicago. American clocks jump forward every second Sunday of March and back every first Sunday of November, which NIST's daylight saving page turns into March 8 through November 1 for 2026. Britain and the EU switch on the last Sunday of March and of October: March 29 and October 25 in 2026, according to GOV.UK, with Directive 2000/84/EC setting the rule across the EU. Under Mexico's Time Zones Law, in force since October 30, 2022 (text in Spanish), only the northern border keeps seasonal time, so Mexico City stays at UTC−6 year-round.
Dallas time when a fan's clock says 9:00 p.m. (computed with the IANA tz database)
| Fan in… | Winter | Gap weeks | Summer |
|---|
| New York, Miami or Atlanta (Eastern) | 8:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. |
| London | 3:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. |
| Madrid, Paris or Rome | 2:00 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. |
| Mexico City | 9:00 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. |
Winter: Jan. 1–Mar. 7, 2026, and Nov. 1, 2026–Mar. 13, 2027. Gap weeks: Mar. 8–28 and Oct. 25–31, 2026, when only one side of the Atlantic has switched. Summer: Mar. 29–Oct. 24, 2026.
Flip the table and you have a posting plan. A mass message out of Dallas at 8 p.m. arrives in New York at 9 p.m., but reaches London and Madrid while fans there are asleep, somewhere between 1 and 3 a.m.; your European fans have their evening while you're in your afternoon. Mexico City, where we coordinate, shows the same time as Dallas from November 1 until March 13, 2027, and sits an hour behind you in the remaining months. Chat coverage runs 24/7, so these differences shape your schedule, not whether fans get answers. During the gap weeks, double-check anything you've scheduled.
Texas law on intimate images and sexual deepfakes
This summarizes statute text as it reads today. It isn't legal advice, and only a lawyer licensed in Texas can tell you how it fits your case.
- Leaked intimate images (Penal Code § 21.16). Disclosing material that shows a person's intimate parts or sexual conduct, without her effective consent and intending to harm her, is a state jail felony when the discloser knows or has reason to believe it was obtained or created where she reasonably expected it to stay private, the disclosure harms her, and it reveals her identity. That she created the material, agreed to its creation or sent it voluntarily gives the person who leaked it no defense. Among the section's affirmative defenses is material showing only voluntary exposure "in a public or commercial setting," which leaves an open question for paid content reposted for free; for leaks of that kind, we rely on copyright notices.
- Sexual deepfakes (Penal Code § 21.165). The section targets deep fake media that appears to show a real person with computer-generated intimate parts (or someone else's), or engaging in sexual conduct she never engaged in. Knowingly producing or distributing it electronically without effective consent is a Class A misdemeanor; a prior conviction, or a depicted person younger than 18, raises it to a third-degree felony. In the current text, last amended by S.B. 441 effective September 1, 2025, three points stand out: it accepts consent only as a plain-language written agreement the person signed knowingly and voluntarily, with a general description of the media and, if relevant, the audiovisual work it will be part of; a disclaimer or a label saying the image isn't authentic doesn't excuse anyone; and courts must order convicted defendants to pay restitution for psychological, financial or reputational harm.
Two removal clocks
| Rule | What it covers | Deadline |
|---|
| Texas: § 98B.0022 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code (added effective September 1, 2025) | Artificial intimate visual material on a website or app, social media included, once the person depicted asks for it to come down | 72 hours, plus reasonable efforts to remove known identical copies; an owner who misses it can be held liable |
| Federal: the TAKE IT DOWN Act (Public Law 119-12, approved May 19, 2025) | Intimate images published without consent on covered platforms; the Act defines AI-made "digital forgeries" as intimate depictions too | 48 hours from a valid request; platforms had a year, to May 19, 2026, to put the process in place |
Whether to invoke either rule, and how, is something to decide with a lawyer licensed in Texas. Our part is hands-on: we track leaked copies and file takedown notices ourselves.
AI, your face and your voice: Texas rules and ours
Our rule is deliberately narrow: we only create AI images or voice of you with your separate, signed written consent, describing what will be generated and where it will be used. Two Texas statutes make that rule more than a courtesy:
- Penal Code § 21.165(b-2). As explained above, sexual deepfake media needs a signed, plain-language written agreement, with a general description of the media and, where it applies, of the work it will appear in; nothing less counts as consent.
- Business & Commerce Code § 503.001. Voiceprints and records of face geometry are "biometric identifiers" under this section. Capturing one for a commercial purpose requires informing the person beforehand and getting her consent; afterwards it must be kept with reasonable care and destroyed within a reasonable time, at the latest one year after the purpose for collecting it expires. The attorney general can sue for civil penalties of up to $25,000 for each violation. The current text, last amended by H.B. 149 effective January 1, 2026, exempts training AI models that aren't used to identify a specific person, and switches the rules back on if that data is later used for another commercial purpose.
Before you sign any AI authorization, ours included, have a lawyer licensed in Texas check it against both sections.
Privacy when you share a metro with 8.5 million people
A crowd that size feels like cover, yet a single subscriber who recognizes your street is enough. Four habits help:
- Geo-blocking. OnlyFans lets you restrict access by country, and in the U.S. by state where OnlyFans offers it. We go through the options in your own settings rather than promise them here. Any restriction also cuts off the paying fans there, and a VPN gets around all of them.
- What the background gives away. A DART station sign, a toll-road exit, the skyline seen from your balcony or the name on your complex's gate can pin your home down to a few blocks. Scan each clip for these before it goes up, especially on the social profiles that feed your page.
- A chat that keeps quiet. The contract forbids any chatter from revealing or suggesting your legal name, where you live, how your day runs, or anyone in your family.
- Leaks. We hunt for your material, reposts that drop your name included, and send removal requests under the DMCA, drafted manually.
Filming in Dallas: what the city asks for
If the city is your backdrop for social media, the City of Dallas Office of Special Events says a commercial filming permit is needed for filming on public property, and its list of covered productions includes still photography and webisodes. The same page names other cases:
- Streets, sidewalks and curbs. Any street or lane closure or traffic control, closing a sidewalk to the public, or parking on a restricted curb lane.
- City property. B-roll of any city property, City Parks, Pioneer Plaza, Dealey Plaza and City Hall Plaza included, and the use of city-owned facilities. In other situations, the Office of Special Events decides.
- Timing and fees. Simple shoots should apply 3 full business days ahead (for a Monday, by 9 a.m. the previous Wednesday), complex ones 5 or more. The application fee is $50 per location for a standard production and $250 for a complex one.
- Insurance. The city's insurance requirements start at commercial general liability of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 in the annual aggregate, with the City of Dallas named as certificate holder.
The Dallas Film Commission, which Visit Dallas describes as the city's official film commission and one of its divisions, doesn't issue permits. Its FAQ says you don't need one "just to roll film or tape," and its permit page adds that private property doesn't require a city permit, though you still need the owner's permission. Fort Worth and Arlington run their own film permit processes, which the commission's site links to. None of these rules decide what may be shown: the Penal Code's offenses of public lewdness and indecent exposure (§§ 21.07 and 21.08) apply, so anything explicit stays off the street. We don't organize shoots.
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