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There's a lot of young people lying flat in resistance to the government and societal pressures. Add to that growing gender imbalances and inequality, they're ripe for fermentation.
Just because they can't openly call for the end of the government, doesn't mean they support it.
When asking for the reforms you're talking about results in things like getting disappeared of course people are going to be underground about it. The human spirit isn't meant to be caged in the way that the CCP does (Or Western capitalism does for that matter), eventually resistance will build up to a breaking point I hope.
Learning that your government blatantly murdered peaceful protestors has an effect on a population. Along with some minor social distress, that's enough to start a revolution.
Fascists are obsessed with controlling the narrative because they know the truth makes them look like the weak, uncreative, and ineffective.