Was thinking… because why not 
What’s your perception of the “street cred” of DE:s? Not what you think is cooler, but what “other people” think is cooler?
Here’s a short list of mine (again, this is what I perceive others think of these):
Cinnamon: For lame noobs. The fact that Xfce is almost identical in function and purpose has no impact on Xfce whatsoever.
Xfce: The “Full DE with most cred”. Light, but not super light. Simple, but not too simple. But you can always get by using it. People will never look down on you for making it your daily driver. Not lame like Cinnamon, because (no logical reason whatsoever). More cred than Plasma, but only because you have to mod it to get blur.
LXqt: For the same people who would buy a Lotus 7 to drive to work in. So much of an odd bird that it really just… is.
LXDE: Exactly like LXqt but vintage.
Gnome: Dual personality - For people who do serious work, and for noobs who don’t understand that it sucks. Depending if you post screenshots of you coding on it, or trying to rice it, you will be judged as A or B above.
Plasma: The “Bought a pre-riced japanese car”. Like Xfce (in attitude towards it), but with blur. And blur. Also some blur.
Openbox: Like Xfce, but a window manager.
i3-on-Arch: The Fast And The Furious of window managers. You either come off like super cool, or someone who is trying way way too hard.
i3-on-any-other-distro: Wow. You must be a serious coder. No matter if you post screenshots of coding or not.
Any other tiling window manager: …(furious googling) Oh, that’s cool! Do you code?
