James Gunn confirms on Twitter that previous Marvel shows are not part of the MCU

[The Artisan]

Multiverse just means nothing is canon until they say it is. Doesn't really change too much, but allows them to suddenly declare something is "canon" without caring about impacting past things.

Click to shrink...

these shows were incepted long before the concept of a multiverse was introduced in the franchise. and even then, these shows were never portrayed as being in an alternate reality of the MCU, but set in the main MCU. now that we have the multiverse introduced, I still don't see why it's necessary to say that these shows were a part of that. they should just be canon to the main universe