Not surviving must mean "cartoon dying while still in your plane or bailing out and forgetting to pop your canopy", while being beat must mean " you bailed successfully and didnt cartoon die during your bailout or ditched or crashed and towered manually.
Maybe, but hard to speculate without semp explaining the difference. He says he was just joking now anyways. Of course, saying you were joking after the fact is like pooping your pants at work and everyone smelling it and knowing what foulness you just did, and then you saying, 'guys I was just joking, I mean, I really did poop my pants but it was a joke pants poop.'