Houston and Mexico City: the same clock all winter
Federal time-zone rules (49 CFR § 71.7) put almost all of Texas in the Central zone: the line with Mountain Time follows the New Mexico border and then the eastern edge of Hudspeth County, in far West Texas. Houston runs on Central Time. Its clocks move with the rest of the country: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) lists 2026's daylight saving period as March 8 to November 1. Mexico City no longer changes at all. Under Mexico's 2022 Time Zones Law (in Spanish), seasonal time applies only along the northern border, and the capital stays in the Central Zone, UTC−6, all year.
For you, that means something simple: for roughly four months a year, it is the same time in your home and where your account is coordinated.
Houston and Mexico City, 2026–27 (offsets from the IANA tz database, release 2026b)
| Period | Houston | Mexico City | 10:00 a.m. in Houston is… |
|---|
| Jan 1 – Mar 7, 2026 | CST, UTC−6 | UTC−6 | 10:00 a.m. in Mexico City |
| Mar 8 – Oct 31, 2026 | CDT, UTC−5 | UTC−6 | 9:00 a.m. in Mexico City |
| Nov 1, 2026 – Mar 13, 2027 | CST, UTC−6 | UTC−6 | 10:00 a.m. in Mexico City |
In winter, a message you send us at ten in the morning arrives at ten in the morning for the people coordinating your account; from March to October we are one hour behind you. None of this changes when your fans get answered, because the chat on your account is covered 24/7. It does change how you read a schedule, so it pays to check the timing of scheduled posts and mass messages every March and November.
And your fans' clocks
- Eastern Time, one hour ahead all year. New York, Miami or Atlanta change their clocks on the same Sundays as Houston, so a fan's 9 p.m. there is always your 8 p.m.
- London, five or six hours ahead. Britain switches on different Sundays (in 2026: March 29, then October 25, per GOV.UK). Nine at night in London lands at 3 p.m. in Houston for most of the year, and at 4 p.m. in two short windows, March 8–28 and October 25–31, when only one country has changed.
- Your late nights. Fans who write after you go to sleep are answered by the team on shift, with the same rules as during the day.
Houston in numbers, and what they change in your inbox
The Census Bureau's QuickFacts tables estimate 2,397,315 people in the city of Houston on July 1, 2025, and 5,045,026 in Harris County. The same tables put the city's Hispanic or Latino share at 44.2% and its foreign-born share at 29.3%, and report that 47.1% of residents five and older use a language other than English at home (ACS five-year data, 2020–2024).
Those figures describe your neighbors, not your subscribers. Still, if your fans start a conversation in English and slide into Spanish, or write in Spanglish and expect the same back, a reply that reads like a translation loses the moment. This is how we handle it:
- The fan picks the language. English gets English, Spanish gets Spanish, and a mix gets a natural mix back.
- A human behind every reply. Software may suggest the words; a person checks them and presses send. Nothing goes out on its own, in any language.
- Your limits travel with you. Your no-go list is written into the contract and binds us in English, Spanish or any mix; pushing you toward anything on it is a reason to terminate.
Staying private in a metro of millions
A county of five million people feels anonymous, and it only takes one subscriber who recognizes a corner of it. Privacy here is worked from four sides:
- Geo-blocking. OnlyFans lets creators block viewers by location. Whether the setting goes down to Texas or stops at country level, we look at it together inside your account instead of promising it here. Blocking a region also removes the paying fans in it, and a VPN gets around any block.
- What a clip gives away. A freeway exit sign, the name on your apartment complex's gate, a parking-garage level marker or the view of downtown from your window can narrow your location to a few streets. Look for these before you post, above all on the social accounts that funnel fans to your OnlyFans.
- Silence from the chat. By contract, no chatter may mention or hint at your legal name, where you live, your routine or your family.
- Leaks. Our team tracks down your material, including copies with your name removed, and asks sites to take it down through DMCA notices written by hand.
Texas law on leaked images and deepfakes
General information from the current statutes, not legal advice. Whether any of it fits your case is a question for a Texas-licensed attorney.
- Unlawful disclosure of intimate visual material (Penal Code § 21.16). Under the current text, disclosing intimate images of someone without consent and with intent to harm is a state jail felony when the person had a reasonable expectation that the images would stay private, the disclosure causes harm and it reveals who they are. The statute adds that it is no defense that the person created the material or sent it voluntarily.
- A caveat that matters for creators. The same section lists an affirmative defense when the material shows only a person's voluntary exposure "in a public or commercial setting." Whether paid content that someone reposted for free fits § 21.16 is not obvious, which is why, for leaks of paid content, the tool we use is copyright: DMCA takedown notices.
- Sexual deepfakes (Penal Code § 21.165). Producing or distributing sexual deepfake media of a person without consent is a Class A misdemeanor, and a third-degree felony for repeat offenders or when the person depicted is under 18. The current text, last amended effective September 1, 2025, also says that consent is valid only if the person knowingly and voluntarily signed a written agreement in plain language that includes a general description of the deepfake media.
- Civil claims and removal (Civil Practice and Remedies Code ch. 98B). A person depicted can sue for actual damages, including mental anguish, plus court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. Provisions in force since September 1, 2025 add three things: a website or app that does not remove artificial intimate images within 72 hours of the depicted person's request can be held liable, and must offer an easy way to ask; the person suing can use a pseudonym in court (§ 98B.008); and the deadline to sue is 10 years from discovering the material or turning 18, whichever is later (§ 98B.009).
Our own rule runs in the same direction: no AI version of your face or voice without your signed authorization. Any AI authorization, ours as well, is worth running past a Texas-licensed attorney with § 21.165 in hand before you put your name on it.
Texas age-verification law and selling outside OnlyFans
In 2023 Texas passed H.B. 1181, now Chapter 129B of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code. A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on a website, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, must verify that visitors are 18 or older, using digital identification or a commercial age-verification system. The current definition of "commercial entity" expressly includes a sole proprietorship. On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton that the requirement survives First Amendment review.
In our day-to-day work, sales happen inside OnlyFans: our chatters can never ask for or accept payments, tips or gifts outside the platform. If you ever consider selling explicit content from a website of your own, make that decision with a Texas-licensed attorney first.
Getting paid in Houston: how the money moves
Under the OnlyFans Terms of Service, the platform keeps 20% of every fan payment, handles all fan payments and creator earnings in U.S. dollars, and lets you withdraw only once your balance meets the minimum payout amount, through the payout option you registered. Two more clauses are worth knowing: if a fan obtains a refund or chargeback from their card provider, OnlyFans may deduct the creator's share of that amount; and if you become tax non-compliant, the platform reserves the right to close your account or restrict your payouts.
Your money never passes through us: OnlyFans pays an account held in your name alone. After each monthly cut-off, within 5 business days, you receive a report showing how the commission was worked out (weekly reports too, on request), and you pay the commission by bank transfer. Only money OnlyFans has already released to you is counted; anything it is still holding goes into the cut-off in which it is released. Three fixed tiers:
- 30%: monthly net below $1,000.
- 25%: monthly net of $1,000 to $2,999.99.
- 20%: monthly net of $3,000 or more, starting at exactly $3,000.
Whichever tier your month lands in applies to all of it. This is what that looks like, right up to and across the $3,000 line:
| Fan payments in a month | Your net after OnlyFans' 20% | Empire's cut | What you keep |
|---|
| $1,200 | $960 | 30% = $288 | $672 |
| $3,125 | $2,500 | 25% = $625 | $1,875 |
| $3,749 | $2,999.20 | 25% = $749.80 | $2,249.40 |
| $3,750 | $3,000 | 20% = $600 | $2,400 |
| $5,000 | $4,000 | 20% = $800 | $3,200 |
Look at the two middle rows: reaching $3,000 net moves the whole month to 20%, so at the line you keep more, not less.
These are worked examples, not a promise of earnings.
Texas taxes: the state part (data, not advice)
- No state income tax on individuals. Article 8, Section 24-a of the Texas Constitution, added in 2019, says the legislature may not impose a tax on the net incomes of individuals, including an individual's share of partnership and unincorporated association income.
- Franchise tax is about entities. It applies to "taxable entities," a list that includes limited liability companies, while Tax Code § 171.0002 excludes sole proprietorships. For 2026 and 2027 reports, the Texas Comptroller lists a no-tax-due threshold of $2,650,000 in annualized total revenue; an entity at or below it owes no franchise tax and files no No Tax Due Report, but still has to file a Public Information Report or an Ownership Information Report.
- Federal tax is the same as anywhere else. The basics are covered on our USA page.
Preparing returns, dealing with tax authorities for you or giving tax advice: none of that is something we do. Two questions worth taking to a licensed CPA: whether working as a sole proprietor or through an LLC makes sense for you, and what records to keep for a commission paid to a company based in Mexico. Our RFC (Mexican tax ID), PMG2608209C5, can be checked with Mexico's tax authority, SAT.
Shooting content in Houston: registration, parks and police
If Houston is the backdrop for your social media, the Houston Film Commission describes how the city works:
- Registration is not a permit. For filming on general public property within city limits, the Commission asks for a registration form that it numbers and signs. It states that the registration is for informational purposes only and is not a permit to film on City, County, State, Federal or private property.
- Insurance. Using general public property requires the production company to give the City a liability insurance certificate of one million dollars per incident.
- Police. A shoot that needs traffic or pedestrian control, or blocks a lane or a street, has to hire City of Houston police officers.
- Parks. A permit is required for filming in most City of Houston parks. The Parks and Recreation Department's request form covers professional photography and filming at any City park, still photography included, with a reservation fee of $154.42 per park per date.
That form lists everything from engagement and quinceañera photos to advertising shoots, so a session with a hired photographer in a City park is the kind of booking it covers. A registration or a permit deals with logistics, not with what you film: the same Penal Code chapter makes public lewdness (§ 21.07) and indecent exposure (§ 21.08) offenses. Private places such as your building's pool deck, a rooftop or a rented house need the owner's permission. And Empire doesn't organize shoots.
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